Originally Posted by
89Pistons
It can be flown as a 7 day trip. Intrepid, I said before that I'm not making a guess here. I'm just passing along what I've heard the folks in the big building in Chicago want to do. I'm not in charge. I don't get paid to think about hotels and recovery options. That's their job.
Hearing what some super cool guy in the big building wants and reality are two VERY different things. Whoever fed you this has zero idea how complicated and difficult the FRMS exemption for the island hopper was to obtain. Slapping a non COLA states side crew on it prob sounds great to some mid manager, but sucks for him that the FAA will think very differently.