Comair updates?
08-09-2008, 02:06 PM
#6781
Airport Hobo
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 844
Thanks Mike, et all. I had read all the literature and the flights I'm looking at would leave CVG at about 11pm and would get me into OAK at about 5am with a 4 hour break in MEM. Not all that appealing but my other options are pretty full. Direct: oversold, SLC: OK, ORD: 
, MSP: Poor. The next day looks ok, but tight.
, MSP: Poor. The next day looks ok, but tight.
08-09-2008, 02:32 PM
#6782
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: awkward & cramped
Posts: 340
The 4 hour break in MEM isn't that bad. They have TV and some recliners. It's also pretty quiet.
I always slept on the floor in the DC/MD-10, which is probably what you'll be on from MEM-OAK. There's plenty of space and it's more comfortable than one would expect.
I used them often due to the ease. A bird in the hand...
Is B-rad still going with you? I'm jealous. I could use a little West Coast time.
Confirmdat is absolutely right, the Fed-Ex guys are always super friendly. They will go out of their way to help you find your way around and get comfortable.
I always slept on the floor in the DC/MD-10, which is probably what you'll be on from MEM-OAK. There's plenty of space and it's more comfortable than one would expect.
I used them often due to the ease. A bird in the hand...
Is B-rad still going with you? I'm jealous. I could use a little West Coast time.
Confirmdat is absolutely right, the Fed-Ex guys are always super friendly. They will go out of their way to help you find your way around and get comfortable.
08-09-2008, 04:15 PM
#6783
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: 747
Posts: 359
Dr. Lewis, I think I understand what you are saying. But can they retroactively put me on reduced rest the day before? The 24 hour look back put 9:38 all on the first day, or much less than 8 hours straddling the rest period. Here's how the flight breakdown was as of report time this morning.
day 1:
Depart Arrive Block
9:10 11:10 2:00
11:45 14:56 3:11
17:55 22:22 4:27
release at 23:30 Total block 9:38
report at 11:00 then changed to 11:30 (11.5 hours rest changed to 12)
day 2:
12:00 12:39 0:39
I halfway see what you are saying with the whitlow 8 hour rest period, which was always legal. but you are saying that I retroactively was put into 8 hour reduced rest for 7:59 scheduled block, requiring 10 hour comp rest, but then schedule changed to 12 hour comp rest due to 9+ hours of flying?
Make sense?
day 1:
Depart Arrive Block
9:10 11:10 2:00
11:45 14:56 3:11
17:55 22:22 4:27
release at 23:30 Total block 9:38
report at 11:00 then changed to 11:30 (11.5 hours rest changed to 12)
day 2:
12:00 12:39 0:39
I halfway see what you are saying with the whitlow 8 hour rest period, which was always legal. but you are saying that I retroactively was put into 8 hour reduced rest for 7:59 scheduled block, requiring 10 hour comp rest, but then schedule changed to 12 hour comp rest due to 9+ hours of flying?
Make sense?
I believe that is correct as far as the retroactivity. When you started you were legal with what you were scheduled but as you flew more and more it made the rest illegal.
I'm just glad I don't have to worry about all that stuff now. Min rest here is 10 hours. Of course we get that fairly often. Still better than the 8 hours scheduled at comair.
jrmyl
08-09-2008, 05:17 PM
#6784
Airport Hobo
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 844
The 4 hour break in MEM isn't that bad. They have TV and some recliners. It's also pretty quiet.
I always slept on the floor in the DC/MD-10, which is probably what you'll be on from MEM-OAK. There's plenty of space and it's more comfortable than one would expect.
I used them often due to the ease. A bird in the hand...
Is B-rad still going with you? I'm jealous. I could use a little West Coast time.
Confirmdat is absolutely right, the Fed-Ex guys are always super friendly. They will go out of their way to help you find your way around and get comfortable.
I always slept on the floor in the DC/MD-10, which is probably what you'll be on from MEM-OAK. There's plenty of space and it's more comfortable than one would expect.
I used them often due to the ease. A bird in the hand...
Is B-rad still going with you? I'm jealous. I could use a little West Coast time.
Confirmdat is absolutely right, the Fed-Ex guys are always super friendly. They will go out of their way to help you find your way around and get comfortable.
08-10-2008, 12:58 PM
#6787
pants on the ground
Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: back seat
Posts: 1,359
about fedex jumpseating...looking to make it to budapest on a direct from the states even if its not on fedex. any help on doing this would be awesome. don't have a clue on jumpseating or non-revving to international destinations.
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08-10-2008, 01:50 PM
#6788
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Joined APC: Jul 2006
Position: 767 Pilot
Posts: 1,133
Just take DL. They go there from JFK. Non-reving is not much different from domestic. Coming back, make sure you have a back up plan, and arrive early, because those overseas stations are sometimes not DL employees, and do things differently as far as activating non-revs.
08-10-2008, 04:15 PM
#6790
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Position: EFFO (eternally furloughed First Officer)
Posts: 411
HAHAHAHAHA I LOVE IT!!! the system beeped me earlier but it was for the wrong FO. I called in gave them my # and someother persons name came up. What a great sytem! heard they got it from the Oxy clean guy for only two easy payments of $29.95 and as a bonus a free set of steak knives!!!
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