Yep... 8 hours on the ground after 5 legs, followed by 4 more legs and borderline fatigue, then "comp rest", followed by another 5 legs.

 

At Mesaba the reduced rest usually comes on the last night of the trip so you can get your comp rest the next night when you are off anyway....

 

I hate those kind of trips. Some of here at Eagle are like that too. I'm sure the same can be said of any regional. The last thing I want to do on my day off is try to recover from 6 hours of sleep (at best) the night before followed by a 5 leg day. I want to spend that time with my family.

 

same is true at trans states....Think i'm starting to see a trend.

Calling in fatigued is one thing, the fear is that you do it on every scheduled reduced rest over night, and some bean counter starts to see a trend, and you find yourself doing a carpet dance....if everyone does it, it works, if one person does it, they're fired.

 

Oh, Eagle has them... but they are mostly on the ATR, the now gone Saab routes and such. Not sure about the DFW or LAX folks, but the ORD, NYC and BOS folks are very good at ensuring that kickoff flights go out late each and every time they schedule a reduced rest. They have seen scheduled reduced rests become the rarity in schedules rather than the norm.

They still sneek them in there, and the crews were very good about ensuring they have adequate rest, calling crew scheduling and informing them they will require 8 hours behind the door.... and during the recent TA talks the company acknowledged, and has told crew scheduling that if it is requested, it will be granted.... BUT, you have to call and ask for it. So, at least at Eagle there is no longer any reason to have a reduced rest.... unless you're a company man and decide to. If you ask for 8 behind the door, you get it. The reduced rests have been decreasing in most of the schedules.

 

Compass can not schedule reduced rest per the contract. I came from Comair and this one section of the contract is a big QOL improvement. Now the only reason you are tired is from early report times, but I don't think those are going away.

I'm sure not allowing reduced rest reduces productivity a little, but it's worth it in my opinion.

 

The last four trips I had reduced built into my schedule every third day at Mesa.... I'm getting really freekin sick of it

 

That is a nice thing to have. Not really THAT great, but my previous employer had it that you couldn't be scheduled for more than 10 hour of duty following an RR overnight. Of course, the key word being "scheduled".

My current employer, I've had lots of 11-12 scheduled days after RR overnights.

 

I don't think I've ever seen a scheduled RR at SkyW...of course there are the stand-ups (naps, CDO's, etc...). But typically those go fairly senior..of course I've gotten six awarded by PBS in the last two months and I'm certainly not a fan.

 

uhh you can't have less than 8 hours rest, it is the minimum for reduced rest...