Originally Posted by
Sky Angel
I am a new hire with Mesa. This seems to be the subject of conversation on the flight attendant forums as well. Please help me understand this better as I am new but I thought it was a requirement that the crew had to have a resting period of 8 hours on a RON.?
If the crew is released from duty, yes they are required 8 hours of rest. What is being referred to here is a continuous duty overnight. Usually when the crew will work one of the last flights in and take one of the first flights out in the morning. If it's considered one entire duty period then no rest is required. The maximum duty period is still limited to 16 hours, so basically it's all one duty period with a multi-hour break in the middle.