Hopefully not that long this time...
Southern just booked me on a commercial flight for next week.. 16.5hrs... In Economy. That's just inhumane... My back needs the merger ASAP...

Southern is desperate.
A checkride bust is acceptable in lieu of a DUI. ;)

Actually it was 10 years (much less if you count the years that the integration was actually in process).

Very different situation this time.

Thanks, though, for guessing. You were close.

BTW, How's the SLI game going over at your airline?

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The only time I ever called in fatigue was after a 17 hour cattle-class flight from PVG-JFK. Was supposed to continue to MIA, but I pulled the plug in Kennedy.

"Scheduling? Hi. I'm fatigued. Not going to Miami today."

"But... You're deadheading!"

"I know. And I'm done. Get me a hotel room."

"But... you can't fatigue on a deadhead!"

"Wanna bet?"

I'm not familiar with your work rules.. How can you deadhead for 17 hours and then go right into flying?

I think what he meant was it was a 2-leg deadhead PVG-JFK-MIA and he banged out fatigued in JFK. I would've done the same...

That's exactly how it happened.

Good times.

Did you get a phone call from the CP after that?

I did.

"Why did you fatigue out on a deadhead?"

"Because the company put me on a schitty middle row seat on a schitty Chinese carrier for a mind-numbing 17 hours in a ratty beat up A340. My back is killing me, my @ss hurts from the crappy seat and I've got the runs from whatever it was they fed me on that God-awful flight."

"Ok, thanks!"

And that was the end of that.

That's because your good buddies with DH, and you can do no wrong! Your just so lucky!