Yes foriegn airline time counts for competitive purposes. The one thing it does not count for is the requirement to have 1000 hours 121 SIC in order to upgrade, that has to be US FAA 121 time.

 

For a lineholder, yes, but only to protect the operation, so has to be a mx delay at a remote outstation or similar. Can't extend just for the heck of it.
I've been here about 3 years and have yet to be involuntarily extended. I'm sure someone will chime in and say they have been extended, but it is not common.

 

Thanks again. Glad it’s not common.

 

In my entire career I don't recall ever being extended to the point of over-nighting somewhere and then working a return flight on my day off. Worst has been MX delays which resulted in a day hotel and a return late at night, arriving in the early am of my day off. I've never just been assigned a new trip on days off.

That would be pretty fatiguing.

 

I was junior manned 3 times at my regional. It happens. Usually it was an evening return flight that broke, leading to an extra overnight at a hotel (min 10 hours obviously) and then flying it back the next day at some point, depending how bad it broke.

 

happens all the time at AA…

 

no it doesn’t

 

Right? How about the actual data? I asked a union rep, himself a 320 FO, what the APA data guys had told the BOD? "It's really bad!" No, that's not the answer...what did the data show? What were the percentages? "IDK but it was really bad! This past summer it was terrible in my base. It was happening all the time." Okay, I can look up a month's worth of reassignment data. His CA/FO bid status in his base? It was less than 5%. For some reason 2% is ringing a bell but IDK if that's correct. What was also left out that the majority of re-assignments work in your favor. Another guy said "I got reassgined every trip last month." He made a big mistake, the previous month's flying was still in DECS. Total reassignments he'd had? Zero. I just don't believe people's comments when factual data is available. When they DON'T provide the data you have to wonder "why not just show the data??"

Years later "it's worse!!" What's the data? Show us the change? Nah....real data might not support their public statements. Often it's not about the facts it's about the leverage. Keep that in minde with everything you read from either side.