Originally Posted by
BMEP100
Or maybe on the free first class sauce and confusing legend with reality.
Deadhead paid blended rate in 2011, he wasn't making less than "on duty, as you put it. He may have been the IRO, talking to you about something in the past.
You're way too defensive. Since you've stated blended rate more than once, if the equipment paid higher than the blended rate, then, yes, it was saving the company money for him to deadhead rather than being the IRO.
He sat there the entire flight so he definitely wasn't on duty. … did LCAL consider a non lie flat business class seat with no curtains to be adequate rest facilities?
No matter; it was an uaugmented TATL flight flown in 2011 which was prior to CPDLC so it's not like a TATL today is more complex than a few years ago.