Originally Posted by
Falcon20
You have to be “promptly available.” This is what the contract says.
This has been generally accepted to be 2 hours under normal conditions. This is not written in the contract.
The beauty of the ambiguity is that it protects the pilots if there is a wreck or weather issue.
THIS. It is NOT 2 hours, is not written anywhere official, and should stay that way for our protection.
That obviously does not give you the license to sit short call for DTW from Cali... Those guys ruined it for the rest of us
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