When you say "5 minutes" you actually are talking "35 minutes." What, you say? There is the FAA max duty day from the FAR 117 tables (and then the two hour extension beyond that), but there is also our contractual max PWA duty day, which at the time of trip construction is limited to 30 minutes less than that. And, there is no such thing as a "PWA max duty day extension"...only an FAA extension.

The bottom line is that we already are giving the company 30 minutes of PWA max duty day extension/flexibility for free before we go into the FAA extension even one minute. That is all fine and good, as this is the airline industry and stuff happens. However, no need to mentally fret about "it's just five minutes" when you decline going into the extension. Not that anyone does, but I wanted to highlight that. "It's just five minutes" means you are extending 35 minutes past the max PWA duty day when the trip was built in the first place.