Originally Posted by
Sliceback
Sometimes they can back to back the trips. I'd put 3 turns together and make a 23+ hr 3 day trip. Cost was 2-3 hotels. So they're trading some $$$ to build large blocks of time off or fewer commutes. Back to back 4 trips and you can have a 3 commute/12 day month, plus leading and trailing commutes(??), and a 85-95 hr month.
Yeah, makes sense. Had a stretch of 8-day, 85-hour months: two 3-day international and one 2-day transcon. I'd die in the seat if I could do that indefinitely. That ship has sailed for now, unfortunately.