We do a lot of red eye flying and they seem to be addding more every month. Trips that span 4 calendar days but have 3 duty periods are common. If it has an overnight 22hrs or longer it will credit an extra duty period. Problem is that threshold changes to 24hrs when we switch to pbs and we get a lot of these types of trips with 21hr overnights not 22hrs.

It’s also not a 4.5 per duty period it’s an average of them all. Average is common but with calendar day not duty period. The kicker that no one has is that within each of those duty periods we total up the block for the block or better calculation. It’s not done on a leg by leg basis. Over block one leg by 30min then under block the next by 30min you get nothing. Beautiful isn’t it.

After pbs we go to 5.0 per duty period average with an extra duty period credit calculated in the average for a 24hr overnight. Still not calendar day. Trip rig of 3.5 to 1 time away from base. Current block or better industry bottom calculation maintained.