Highly recommend going to Berchtesgaden and seeing Eagles Nest. Spectacular views.
Also, the salt mine tour in Salzburg was fun...kids will enjoy the underground miners train.
Boat tour at Konigsee also beautiful. Deep lake in the valley of tall mountains.
My favorite part of Germany...what you expect Germany to look like.

Ok, how do you get in the "back door" way to see the Oct schedule? I missed out on that briefing....

Click the Sept awards and replace Sep with Oct in the URL. Sometimes the reasons report will work before the line awards.

Lots to do. On day one, if you are jet lagged and looking for something to do for a couple hours in Garmisch , go to Partnach Gorge, really cool walk through,... you guessed it, a gorge.

If you have access to the military shoppette in Garmisch, buy cases of water to put in your truck for the rest of your vacation.

Enjoy,... loved our car's plates

Three college friends from the academy were
retiring in the same month...they decided to get together on a mutual
overnight and discus their final flights and retirement plans.

The Delta Pilot said, "I'm going to fly my Boeing Triple 7 to Santiago. I have paid for
all my close friends and my family to have the entire first class section to
themselves. I have hired a team of Andes mountain guides and mules and we
are all going to the top of Mount Aconcagua and raise a flag to my stellar
career! Then when we fly back to Atlanta, I can't wait for the water
cannon salute and from there we will head over to Eagle’s Landing Country Club,
where I am a board member and have a retirement party that would put Fast Eddy
Chandler to shame!"

The United pilot said, "I, too, purchased the entire first class section to bring along my entire family, kids,
grandkids, cousins nephews and their families! I will fly my Boeing 747-800
to my favorite layover, Tokyo! I have reserved the entire Tsukiji Market and since we are
all avid sushi fans we will have a banquet and our chef will be none
other than; Jiro Ono...who is considered the best chef in Japan! We will
then tour the market place the next day and fly home to San Francisco and I
already have the 'Bay Tour' reserved! I, too, am excited about my water
canon salute! Then off to Dutch Henry Winery in Napa for a private retirement
party that would put Mark Sanders to shame!

The US Air pilot said, "I'm going to fly my Embraer ERJ-190 up to Buffalo...my third wife is going
to try to get off work and see if we can get her on non-rev. I wanted my 7
kids to come, but they won't even talk to me any more. I have a 15
hour layover so I am excited to try the chicken wings at Duff's Famous
Wings...I can't afford to go to the Anchor Bar, be cause the Day's Inn van
only has a 5 mile radius. But we are going to splurge and get the 20 piece with
fries and going crazy and getting Medium Hot! The next morning, I only have
one leg back to Philly and we get in right before the 9 o'clock push, but
they can't do a water canon salute do to the influx of traffic....thanks a lot
Southwest!!...so I'm going to buzz the runway...and then I'm
going to pull up to 45 degrees and do an aileron roll!!!

The two other guys were astonished! "Are you really going to do that?", they asked in
unison!! He said. "YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT I AM....well...if the captain will let
me."

Considering that, I thought y'all looked pretty good on the field. I'd be pretty optimistic about the next few years if I were you.

If AF is on strike it is no big deal since we would not be flying as a replacement, right? Unless we added a flight to cover their strike, then it would be a big deal. Is this correct?

Two flight segments "split" by a very short overnight but the whole operation is performed within the time constraints of one duty period.

Example: Report at 2230, Depart 2330, arrive Podunkville at 0100. Sit on Arse for 5 hours ( I guess at a Hotel) Pickup at 0600, Depart Podunkville at 0700, Arrive at domicile at 0830.

Reporting at 2230 your duty day for two legs is 11 hours so that is how you get around not having a "legal" rest period - in this case only 5 hours.

Other names for split duty periods are: illegals, high speeds, CDOs ( don't ask me I am not sure - possibly Collateral Duty Overnight?)

As a "Major" airline Pilot group we should not even consider these. Yes, I know that "some" Pilots want them but we need to be protected from "ourselves" and basically do what is best for the "whole" Pilot group - you know the "Spock" thing from one of the Star Trek movies.

Hell, I would love a satellite base in SAN but if its "bad" for the Pilot group as a whole I understand why we shouldn't do it.

Scoop :)

Note - My times are 100% made up to provide an example - I do not know if they are within the parameters of the SDPs that we considered.

That would be completely unacceptable.

I think the owner of Red Bull is from Salzburg. He's a big aviation nut (Red Bull Aero Racing) and has a hanger near Salzburg that is a large personal collection of aircraft. I believe there is a bar suspended over the plane collection that you can sit down with a drink and look over the planes. Google it since it was just getting started when I was there a while ago.