Originally Posted by
moon
Here's one I've seen. Sat 2 pm to 10 pm at 930 got called for a 1005 departure somewhere. Fine. Inbound airplane ends up diverting and makes it back in at 1130, can I leave? Nope I'm still on the hook even though my standby ended at 10. But hey 8 hours isn't bad especially when you tack on another 2 waiting for a plane. I mean I did get to watch an entire season of The Office
That really sucks - the only way to salvage that would be to call dispatch if they were already diverting, then there would be no reasonable way the flight would be leaving within 45 minutes of the end of your Stby shift.