What will happen is, once awarded a trip, a trip built on what they think the customer wants to do a month from now, it will start with flights turning red. Then they will just disappear. Scheduling will then just adjust your rest wherever. Then you have to hope they find something for you to do on 100 hour layovers that develop with the canceled flying.

The variance is huge between the bases. IAH, out and backs to LAD. MIA, down to SA and back, hopefully. Once in awhile they'll get caught up in a VCP-DKR-FRA flight, then all bets are off.

The classic almost always starts on the East Coast, then around the world, one way or the other.

Ok, here's a month:

LIMO JFK to DOV, DH on one of our planes DOV to HHN, then LIMO to FRA. CR for 16 hours.
Ops changes, LIMO back to HHN, CR 28 hours
FLY (finally) HHN-KBL, 2 hrs GT, KBL-DXB, CR 22 hrs
DH on Emerates to NBO, CR 34 hrs
NBO-MST 2 hr GT, MST-LUX, LIMO to HHN CR 24 hrs
HHN-HHN (plane broke) CR 25 hrs
HHN-UAB, 2.5 hrs GT, UAB-MAD, CR 25 hrs
DH on LuxAir to LUX, CR 36 hrs
LUX-JNB, 2 hrs GT, JNB-NBO, CR 21 hrs
DH on KLM to AMS, then Delta to EWR


16 days, 44 hours of flying, 43 hours of DH


Here's another one:

DH on American LGA-ORD-TOL, CR 12 hrs
DH on one of our planes, TOL-FRA, LIMO to LUX, CR23 hrs
LUX-JNB, 3 hrs GT, JNB-NBO, CR 12 hrs
NBO-AMS, DH KLM to FRA, CR 38 hrs
FRA-DXB, CR 28 hrs
DXB-FRA, CR 18 hrs
FRA-DXB, CR 25 hrs
DXB-ZAZ, 2 hrs GT, ZAZ-DXB, CR 15 hrs
DXB-PVG, CR 21 hrs
PVG-ANC, CR 45 hrs
ANC-ORD, Delta to JFK


16 days, 80 hours of flying, 18 hours of DH

This trip was NOTHING like I was awarded. At one time it had changed to over 140 hours off in DXB, then filled in, nicely.

Hope this helps.