Originally Posted by
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For a little perspective, if you told a 73N or 320 pilot that he/she could go back and sleep or watch movies in a regular old first class seat for 1/3rd of the flight from RDU to SEA, they would probably be overjoyed.
... used to back to back red eye the ATL-Manaus Brazil. At first you hoped you would not get either form of hemorrhagic fever that was going around, or the much easier Yellow Fever, Zitka or Malaria. After two years of being the plug on that thing, I was kinda thinking, maybe Dengue isn't that bad.
Did a 28'ish hour duty day (now RAP) on a 0500 short call. "No Whitlow," they told me. After that, I was and will forever will be a different kind of employee. That, and FAR 117 addressed the worst of aviation's international reserve shenanigans.