Originally Posted by
ugleeual
I personally don’t call to fake until I’ve landed on my last flying leg… then I check flights and make a decision, make a res, call deviation desk, and then checkin… crew desk has to offer 50% premium now before out of base reassignment… so that decreases odds of getting original DH cxld and having to work.
This. If you fake early and you're late, hotel is on you. Might also cost you some long duty day pay or some other contractual help.
There's zero reason to fake ahead of time. You have to call again after blocking in to get released anyways unless all that's left is a deadhead in the current duty period only. Calling the deviation desk after landing counts as getting released after blocking in and it's normally pretty quick to get through to them.