goose

Just had a front end deviating question.. my family will be on vacation this weekend and will be much closer to another airport, other than my hometown airport.. am I allowed ti expense a shuttle from our vacation home (It's about $30) to another airport, to start my trip? And expense the flight? It's a one hour drive vs. a 4 hour drive back to my home, to go out of my home base airport.. and my family can stay on the vacation longer. I'm pretty sure I can, but I can't get ahold of the expense report people.. been on hold over an hour. Thanks

Raptor

Yes to shuttle, yes to flight for your front end deviation. Does not matter in the least that you are not at home or using your normal airport.

Fdxlag2

Essentially any travel is expensable within 3 days of either end of a FDX activity accept renting a car to drive yourself.

Adlerdriver

Since the thread title was already here, I'll toss this out.

There is no upside to deviating early. This is most applicable to international DHs. Buy your tickets, make your plans but why would anyone actually go into the system and deviate sooner than required?

Once you deviate internationally and it's inside 14 days of departure, no trip trades, no drops and most importantly NO PDO BUMPS. While it might be few and far between that someone happens to exercise that option with your trip, there's always a chance until you completely remove it from the table.

Just something to consider. Two of our fellow pilots missed out on staying home and getting paid next week because they pulled the deviate trigger hundreds of hours ahead of time.

Meat Fighter

Alder ~ so do you recommend waiting until in close, for the reasons above, if looking to deviate to later time than originally planned?

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Adlerdriver

Yes, absolutely. I'm referring to a front-end, international DH. The deadline for deviating is 60 hours prior to showtime. I'd wait as close to that as feasible based on your situation. There's no telling what might show up in OT. Why lose out on a lucky trade opportunity or a PDO bump.

I don't really understand the latter part of your question below:

pinseeker

Depends on what you consider upside. If you deviate before the bid month starts, you get the higher of the accepted or established fare. If you wait until the bid month starts or later to deviate, you only get the established fare. I have seen the established fare lower on several occasions, so if the bank is tight, you might want to deviate early.

Adlerdriver

Absolutely correct, thank you. I was basing my comments on the fares being the same but should have included that caveat. My bad.

kronan

Another potential advantage to waiting,
Scheduled DH's might not be available when GT attempts to book--resulting in a revised pairing, generally more CHs and a higher bank.

I typically build my DH month early, and deviate accordingly, had I waited to deviate until contractually required on my most recent trip. Would have wound up with another 28 minutes of pay and an extra 300'sh bank.

Chub

This seems the most appropriate thread to post my question...

One day in the distance future, I’d like to hold regular deadheads as a commuter. With the requirement to do your final check-in 8 hrs prior to showtime, what happens when it looks like your deviated ride will be slightly late? I assume most of the time if you’re sitting in the terminal or on the tarmac for a delay that may put you inside of the 8 hrs, you could pre-emptively call up scheduling to give them a heads up. Does that matter though? Do you automatically lose the trip if you don’t check-in 8 prior, even with a heads up? Do they treat that as violating crew-rest, so in essence, you are useless to them?

I realize the better option is to get an earlier flight to give yourself options, and perhaps even commuting in a day earlier, but with the reduced airline schedules due to Covid, it seems like sometimes that may be unrealistic.