Originally Posted by
10seatsbucksmos
LighteningspeedTime for REST PERIOD should start when crews check in at the hotel for the night.
This would be good in theory. But tell me you don't know 1 pilot that would ask the van driver to stop at a convenience store or restaurant on the way to the hotel and oops! we can't show for tomorrow morning's flight on time, we signed in 1 minute late.
True, however after a long day of flying with not enough time to grab a meal, we usually have the taxi/shuttle driver stop off somewhere so we can grab something to go. That eats into my rest. Lately I've been going all day without eating because there's no time and the airports we go to don't have any food to buy. I am always starving and looking forward to my meal after I finish flying. I've been packing pop tarts and other snacks too since that's all I really have time to eat during the day.