Originally Posted by ocskyguy

My Colorado acquaintance (in the cyber sense), let me try to make this understandable...

We at K4 fly to a host of **** holes around the planet. Usually, once. So, is it better to drop off crew A in said **** hole and figure out how to get them back to civilization? And, figure out how to get crew B into said **** hole? Or, just double crew it? Plenty of bunk space for whoever needs to nap. Lots of good food. And, the collective double crew basically get double pay versus flying half the trip and deadheading in or out.

Regardless of the assorted opines that have been left on this thread, the large majority of the business here is on demand charter. So, this is actually a quality of life issue for our pilots. We would much rather be moving for money than trying to figure out if it is safe to eat or drink the offerings in some miserable corner of the earth.