Originally Posted by
Sink r8
Ferd,
You're right about the inconsistency, but those horses are out of the barn. We will unfortunately have to make that argument separately.
Also, it seems to me that there is potential for a lot of upheaval in commuting rules, ref. the Colgan/Buffalo event. Never mind that it had little to do with fatigue and commuting, and everything to do with incompetence and oversight: the media has decided commuting and fatigue were responsible.
As an aside: what exactly was the difference between the N and S Call in Honest policies?
N call in honest is a great deal. Need 2 flights that both get you to base BEFORE report time. First flight can be offline, 2nd must be NWA. If you do not get on the 1st flight(company verifies this) then you are positive spaced on the 2nd(NWA) flight. If you do not make it(i.e. mx, wx) by report time on positive spaced flight then there are no issues(except for not getting paid
).
Problem with SDAL commuters is(I think ACL pointed out), they are more concentrated than NDAL commuters. For example, DFW could have a lot of positive spaced commuters on flights to ATL.