Originally Posted by
glassnpowder98
I recently rode a hotel van with a Delta crew before we set off on our redeyes. They were going home to finish in Detroit and we were going to join the mass migration of zombie pilots walking across the parking lots of EWR. The idea of a day sleep was blasphemy to them. I’m not sure if their contract strictly prohibits it, but they had never seen a pairing that includes an 11 hour day sleep followed by one, let alone two legs that evening. It’s interesting that EWR doesn’t see many redeyes, but it would be nice to see something in a TA that limits day sleeps. But that would probably force more redeyes into the east coast pairings.
That's funny because I see them quite often (I'm usually able to avoid them) but on the 737 at Delta we have them. Usually just one short-ish leg that evening after the day sleep..but sometimes it's a fairly long 3+ hour leg. And very occasionally it's two short legs. I hate them, but some guys seem to not mind them.