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24 hour duty day extendable to 30 with CP approval. Unless there has been a recent change.Originally Posted by starship
I've deadheaded from CVG-INC and worked the flight INC-HKG. I can't recall the rest rules but I believe the absolute duty day is 24 hours with a four man crew and anything beyond 20 hours needs Chief Pilot approval. Not positive though. Again this is just duty day.
I love Southern DH stories.
Mine was my first trip off IOE. DH BOS-EWR-HKG. Sit for a few days. They decide they don't need to double crew the trip I'm supposed to operate, to LGG, and dispatch it as a heavy crew. An hour after the operating flight leaves, the hotel calls and kicks me out, since it is Chinese New Year, they're oversold and I don't have a reservation. The company can't find me a room in HK, so they DH me HKG-ZRH-BRU. I get to my hotel in Brussels for a 24 hour rest, lay down to sleep, and the phone rings. My cab is waiting to take me to LGG. That date line thing was just impossible for schedulers to figure out. I get to LGG, have a whole day off, and get a call to get in another cab go back to BRU to DH to JFK where I had a 10 hour break before finally operating a revenue leg. Which is how I made my first MileagePlus Elite status.
The one that torqued me off the most was when they paid $600 to DH me in coach from KUL to HKG, and there were open business seats on the same airplane for $400.
That's when I knew I was working for sadists.