Originally Posted by
Lugar
Suppose I’m assigned to fly CKS847. The flight goes WUH-ANC-ORD.
Is there a different crew flying WUH-ANC than the one that flies ANC-ORD? I assume yes.
How many pilots are assigned to the flight? Two?
Assuming there’s a crew swap in ANC, how long is that layover likely to be? Is the layover likely to terminate deadheading to another airplane, or by crewing a plane out of ANC?
It depends. We sometimes do that route single pilot w/ a pilot swap in ANC. Otherwise our FME will come up and sit in the observer seat and we then can operate it all the way through. Once in a blue moon though we recall a couple flight engineers and mount the two observer seat sideways and we can round trip it.