Originally Posted by
johnso29
What's getting so bad about it? Less international and more domestic? It seems like when I'm in PBI guys are saying that, NYC guys in particular. They say they are going down to ATL and bouncing around there until the last day when they get up to NYC again.
The reason I don't like the 7ER category is because the reserve rules seem even worse. I'm not very educated on them, but it seems that scheduling can assign 24 hr SC's? Is that correct? And they can do them back to back? How is this justified? Is it because a crew member gets rest on an ocean crossing? What if you're assigned a domestic trip? Then the Whitlow rule and lookback applies? Could you even get a domestic trip off of a 24hr SC?
Holy crap.....my head is spinning...
Earlier this month I had a 24Hr SC followed by 13 hours off followed by a west coast trip with a redeye coming back. Yeah, it is getting ugly on the ER in NYC. In addition you have to cover 3 airports and the schedulers seem to think it is walking distance between the airports. I used to love it but now I think that ATL base with whatever I can hold might be better.