Longest 'wheels up' time ever
 

I am sitting in SYR right now waiting on an EDC time to PHL 4:20 after the scheduled time. And the airplane was actually here in SYR on time.

Unbelievable.

You've flown to EWR, right?

Yesterday we were delayed long enough for our LAN highspeed that the pax had enough time to DRIVE there AND back and still catch their flight there from DTW. From what I've heard that's been standard all month...
Isn't it soooo nice to always put the longest delay on the highspeed since the crew doesn't time out.... just fall asleep at the controls....

7 hours in BUF to JFK
took off clear and a million ****ed me right off

6 hours! RDU to EWR back in the day. We took off with 2min. to spare until we would of timed out. it was by far the worst for me.
5 hours trying to go from EWR to BWI. If the captain was cool we would just tell the pax the real deal and keep the door open so the FA's wouldn't feel alone with the crazy pax.
A few times to beat the EDT time when we got out of EWR going south at 6000ft with T-Storm all the way down. I don't think you RJ guys can beat that. LOL

Longest I've ever had was I blocked 3:15 EWR-IAD. We ended up flying it back tower enroute at 8,000ft.

I used to get so mad because we weren't block or better, but now that we are I don't care! haha! My trip this past week was blocked and credited at 20:00, and when we finished it was slightly over 22. B or B really takes some stress out of delays for me. I could care less about delays now, I need the cash badly as I'm in the middle of buying a house! ahhhh!!!!

logged 5 hours from lga to sav one night. and that doesnt include 3 hour wait for take off in lga before we went back to the gate.

To many stinkin' RJs clogging the system. You reap what you sow...

Nu

4 hours 35 minutes block PHL-ELM, flight time 22 minutes. Yes PHL was in the dreaded SWAP

My personal best was 5:50 waiting in LAN going back to ORD

24 hours, 35 minutes take off to landing.
B-52 with two aerial refuelings
Massachusetts to Italy and orbit, then return.
Cuban Crisis Chrome Dome Mission loaded with nuclear weapons.
Did three of them in a ten day period.

9 hours
GSO to ORD
Day after X-Mas w/ thunderstorms in Chicago.

My thoughts exactly

Try Int'l Supp 121... we have NO duty day, literally. 16 hours, ha, sheesh, i wish! My record was being on the plane in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for 14 HOURS for MX before taking off for Cairo (3.5 hours), and then Brussels (4.5). Our duty day with this single crew was 24 hours - oops!

During all this time waiting on the ground...are you guys getting paid?

hahaha! very funny. Are we getting paid... haha. Wow.

The real answer to if we are getting paid to wait for hours, Yes we are. $1.55 an hour at Compass we are. Some of the higher paid airlines are up to $1.65 or maybe if you are lucky $1.70 an hour. Per diem. That's your pay. Dont spend it all at once.

I thought you guys start getting paid when the doors are locked?

Ding Ding Ding.......Winner!

If the wheels up time is more than an hour we stay at the gate and usually hold off boarding the pax. Did you really think we just load everyone up into the airplane then close the doors to sit there for 5 hours waiting for a wheels up time?

Blocked over 4 hours JFK-ALB last summer. Glad to see things are already ramping up this year, should be a fun time. I'll be watching from my couch...enjoy!

Newport News to Charlotte, 5 hours day before my birthday. We pushed off the gate three times and went back twice after sitting out for an hour with each 15 minute update expecting to be released. When I finally made the PA flight attendants be seated for departure we heard cheers through the door.... Of course US Air gives free liquor after like 45 minutes... so they were all wasted. To add insult to injury I ended up overnighting in Charlotte when I was supposed to have my birthday off.

Haha, I had to do that in CLT last year too. Supposed to do ORF-ORD and be done, but we ended up having to ferry it gear down to CLT, then I got JRA'd to do a repo flight to ORD at 4am... Happy Birthday!

6:20 JFK to CVG during the international push at 23:00 4 1/2 hrs on the ground after doing the victory lap around the terminal.

6.3 hours in FSD waiting on ORD...blah

This thread was not started as who had the longest flight... But as a long EDCT time... 4:20 EDCT is long... they should have GS PHL instead...

If the CA was cool he would have gone back to the gate and let the people off.

You are correct... Totally wrong to leave the people on the a/c for a long EDCT.

You're a f/o on a CRJ making at tops $40/hr... A professional pilot should not need to rely on over block on delays to make his house payments. Even if you over block 5 hours a month that that's only $200 before tax (if u r making $40/hr which you probly are not). If you have to count on delays to pay your bills something is not right… Get some really pay rates and duty/trip rigs and stop making the pax pay the price for your horrible pay rates!!

Hey! You're right! ORD, LGA, ATL and JFK were always on-time in the 70's and 80's!

9.5 block between iad - ewr a few months ago, i was stuck deadheading though....

Yes.:D


http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content...ck-jetblue.jpg

Hilarious!

There was no wheels up time. Major T'storm over JFnK it was at your own risk and at a mad dash pace to get airframes up when the wx would permit. At 1 point i know i was at least #113 in line.They were launching 22 and every taxi way and runway around the horseshoe was nose to tail

Are you serious? Are you a pilot? Get an f'ing clue...:rolleyes:

Another BUFF guy here with a 27.5 hour flight. No chrome dome with nukes. (though did many elephant walks on alert) this was a trip around Lybia when Quadaffi was talking big.

DAMN! thats a long duty

Couple months ago I rode AWAC from IND-BOS. Gate agent announced that the wheels up time wasn't for another 3 hours, so I just figured that we'd hang around the terminal and eventually board. But no, CA actually requested for the agent to board the plane. CA explained we'd go out to the end of 23L, shut 'em down, and sit there hoping that someone would miss their slot and we'd be able to pick it up by being ready to go. Sounded like kind of a gamble to me, but low and behold after about 1.5 hrs, we had the engines running and were out of there. Question is, who's decision is this? Obviously the extra effort by the AWAC crew was highly appreciated (saved +1.5 hrs) but was that solely CA's decision? Anyone out there ever done anything like this?

Most generally the decision rests with the crew and what they think ATC is going to allow. AWACers are very familiar with these situations being they used to fly out of ORD. If you were ready to go you could usually get out earlier....if you weren't you would continue to wait. I don't know much about BOS but my experience with PHL and LGA show that if there is a ground stop due to WX you can count on the delay going the full monty...If there is a ground stop due to flow...that's subject to change and EDCTs are usually set in stone unless its a nice day.

At AWAC, its up to the captain, remember PIC authority. I know I always check and get the EDCT first and the weather at the destination. If it feels like, I.E. the weather isn't that bad, or its improving, it's best to load up and go wait. Normally it pays off, but again this comes from working the Northeast, and having worked out of ORD so you can get a "feel" of what's going on pretty good.

Let me guess... you were in the military, and then got hired straight to one of the legacy carriers... so you have no clue what so ever what its like to live like a Regional FO... go fly your 12 hour legs and leave us alone

6.2 BGM to Philly friday a 18 hour overnight into a min rest night since they made us complete the whole day.