Originally Posted by CincoDeMayo

Or enjoy making SIT pay at the airport if they don’t contact you. Once you bail to a hotel, either by you or scheduling, SIT ends. And you are correct, you are to stay at the airport for your duty period, and when they do finally call you, a SIT code needs to be placed at the leg for the entire time until you are released to rest. So your example above having 12 hours duty left, you technically have to stay at the airport up to 12 hours before getting your room unless you’re fatigued, like you said. But you’ll be entitled to 5 hours of extra pay if you do.

With that pay, I might hit the airport hotel and get a room while still “being at the airport” and not on rest yet. And if they never contact me with my hotel, im already at a hotel and will expense that airport hotel.