Exactly. You can go ahead and stay on rest for 10+ hours and deviate to get home later. I'm sure plenty others and myself will deviate early to go home to our own bed and families.

If the company wants to schedule it less than 10 hours, great! Now they have no way to touch me. Pre-117 they could get away with 8 hours and no minimum in a hotel room. You want to go back to that?!

Can someone tell me what triggers reroute pay? Was extended on last day of trip by 7 hours due to late departure and inadequate rest day prior.

1. There is nothing stopping anyone from deviating to an earlier DH with a scheduled layover longer than 9 hours. However, there are numerous issues and situations limiting the ability to deviate to a later DH.

2. The only legal DH deviation is to something earlier, not later. For a reserve for instance, you're clock resets at the completion of scheduled DH, not the later DH if that's what is chosen. Also, crew hotel bookings for follow on crews are predicated on the scheduled layover, not the later DH deviation - i.e. you may be occupying someone else's room if you stay longer than scheduled.

3. The company has to give you 10 hours break from duty completion after the layover whether it was 9 hours or 24 hours. Difference is, now they have you on the hook earlier (if reserve) with the 9 hour layover.

4. Not all 9 hour layovers are front or back end of rotation. Some are in the middle.

5. I thought I made it pretty clear in my earlier post, I do not support going back to a dangerously flawed FAR 121. I do support raising the bar to what other carriers have as minimum layovers.

Finally, do you or have you ever had a position in DALPA?

Sorry, don't have the answer but didn't want to bury your question...

Good evening fellow Delta pilots. PieO here as a new participant... former military pilot, and happy to be here at Delta. Looking forward to getting questions answered and discussing our issues. I agree to the rules.

Welcome aboard!

One reroute (RR) trigger, there are multiple, is if the actual RR caused an extension to your originally scheduled rotation.

Example: Report for a four-day at 0800, released on fourth day at 1800. If the reroute exceeds this original footprint, you are entitled to (RR) pay.

For additional information, or questions specific to your added flying, contact D-ALPA Scheduling, they've always offered a quick response. (1-800-USA-ALPA)

Thanks Elliott.

Zika question. I know that if you don't want to go to Zika destinations, bid to avoid them. What happens if you end up getting one of them?

Also more important for my case right now....On a trip to MIA which has just now been classified to have Zika. Wife is pregnant, any chance to change the trip to avoid it? and who to call?

Never done it, but I'm told you can call the CPO and request their assistance. I'd be interested to hear how they handle it. With a pregnant wife, I certainly wouldn't go near Zika myself...probably wouldn't even with a fertile wife who wasn't yet pregnant.