Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Went back and looked and you're right, but the initial posts really seemed to insinuate that it was something significant.
I seem to remember some discussion about some of our short Europe was going to 2-pilot ops soon, so that may be changing. Short Europe was terrible enough with 3-pilots, can't imagine 2.
I flew a bunch of Europe including AMS and CDG as two man trips. Not fun! The good news is FAR117 makes that a difficult scheduling choice for the company because your duty day on the return leg is so short any delay can cause a cancel. The company can however change the trips to 4 day rotations and avoid the issue. If they do that they need to eat the extra hotel costs and a full day of credit for the two man crew. United is doing this on some EWR trips like BRU. It makes for a crappy 16 day schedule.