Originally Posted by
sailingfun
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.
Crappy for some but gold for others. 48 hrs+ in Europe to get acclimated is, to my mind, the "correct" way physiologically to deal with circadian distruptions across the pond. Everyone is tired on the backside of a normal 3 day Europe, augmented or not. I'll bid a 21 hr ADG 4 day Europe all day long even un-augmented over the now typical 3 day/24 ... its better for my body and my lifestyle and worth the 'efficiency' hit to me.