Originally Posted by
CRJPlt
So at Mesaba, if on a 1.5 or 2.0 hour call out, they can't call you 5 minutes before the end of your shift and tell you that you have to do a flight in 1.5 or 2.0 hours for an overnight somewhere? Basically if they don't call you in your callout time prior to your duty off time they can't use you anymore?
Just asking because at my prior airline they would call you up to a minute before your duty off time and extend your reserve shift to whatever they needed to get you to do a flight, up to a total of 16 hours on reserve of course...
No they can't because are Reserve periods are 14 hours long and our contract limits scheduling to schedule us for 14 hours or less unless you specifically request it in wich case you can go to 15... therefore if you are at the end of your reserve shift you are on the end of your legal usability. You have 1.5 to get to the airport plus another .5 to get the the a/c and then another .5 to close the door so anything past the last 3.5-4 hours or so is pretty much a wash because most of our flights block > than 1.0 ...