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01-06-2009 | 03:51 AM

#21

Jetjok

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I believe it's an issue of liability. When you take a plane, train, bus, boat, cab, or limo, and if you're in an accident, you have recourse. If you have an accident in a rental car, assuming the accident was not caused by a mechanical malfunction, your only recourse is your insurance or the other drivers insurance. If the company allowed you to use a rental, I'd think that they would share the responsibility and therefore, accountability, for that accident. The reason we can use rentals during ITU is because we're on the clock 24/7 then. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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01-06-2009 | 12:12 PM

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Brad4est

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Originally Posted by AFW_MD11

Domestic Trip - only hotel authorized as deviation expense is if you check in a day early on a front-end deadhead trip - then, that 1 day in the hotel is a deviation expense.

International Trip - hotels are authorized as deviation expense. The hotel you use can be in the US or wherever (any city, even the scheduled layover city) - just have to be on an "international" trip.

CBA Section 8.C.3.d. Hotel

A "gotcha" on using Hotel in lieu of Deadhead. It doesn't matter how much your deadhead bank is worth, FedEx will only reimburse for the contract rate for the hotel.

Was in Chicago. No contract rate for the weekend. Therefore I got charged about $40 more than I got reimbursed for. Had over $5k in bank. Great deal. I always take the deadhead now, even if it means turning right around and going back. Just doing my part to save money.

01-06-2009 | 12:50 PM

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Can anyone give me some input on breaking up a deadhead back to MEM so I have a day layover at the connecting city. Example would be backend from SEA to MSP on Friday stay in MSP Saturday and continue to MEM on Sunday, It would need 2 tickets and would be attributed to the same trip in FOX. My interest is whether or not you can put 2 tickets on one backend deviation. All in the "3 day" window for the trip

International seems an easy one where a layover is already scheduled but how about domestic

01-06-2009 | 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucky7

You should be able to book a multi-city trip; check with GT. delta.com lets you do it. Make sure you adhere to the enroute delay limit:

d. Travel claimed as a deviation expense must begin or end within 3 days of
the scheduled assignment to/from which the pilot is deviating (e.g.
scheduled deadhead, trip or R-day) and must proceed to the intended
destination of the deviation with no greater than a 24 hour delay enroute,
domestically, and a 48 hour delay enroute internationally.

01-07-2009 | 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by AFW_MD11

speaking of ground transportation as a deviation expense.....

I was flying with a guy a few days ago, and he asked me if he could claim the cost of a rental car as a normal deviation expense (vs. taxi, limo, etc.)

I didn't know the answer, and the contract only says "vendor for surface transportation" - kinda vague.

I never have tried it, but wondering if anyone else has ever done a rental car reimbursement (not during ITU - just on a regular deviation)??

Called the ACP- NO rental cars- I explained a rental would cost $40, but a taxi would be 100+, the answer was no.

01-07-2009 | 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by olly

Called the ACP- NO rental cars- I explained a rental would cost $40, but a taxi would be 100+, the answer was no.

Did you ask him what the reason was, so you could post it on APC?

01-07-2009 | 01:16 PM

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Called the ACP- NO rental cars- I explained a rental would cost $40, but a taxi would be 100+, the answer was no.

Olly, trying to expense your rental in FLL last week?

01-07-2009 | 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by MD11Fr8Dog

Olly, trying to expense your rental in FLL last week?

Olly, try going back to your ACP and tell him that you hired a hooker with a commercial drivers license to "drive" you around in the rental. It might work.
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