Lot of red eyes

Red eyes to start but then what’s the rest of the trip look like? Does it continue to be all red eyes?

Mixed. Some go back west on the second duty period (after day rest, or early following day after long), some east coast back west on last day, and the gems that go to FLL and do 2 nights of redeye jungle turns and then go back to LAS late on the last day.

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Love those trips. lol. I actually do.

In all seriousness, what do you like about them, and can you give an example of one of your LAS based trips?

I did a Vegas trip the start of December. 11pm show in Vegas red eye to FLL

Next night red eye turn to Nicaragua

Next night red eye turn to Nicaragua

Next evening FLL-LAS end in Vegas about 11pm.

Some people like them because they are usually fairly high credit and often commutable on both ends. I got on a red eye to Dfw after finishing that trip and home by 5am the next morning.

Redeyes are much easier for those who are acclimated to the pacific time zone. The worst schedules in the system are those out of MCO/FLL that go out west on day 1 with an 11pm report time in LAX/LAS on day 2 (that's 2am Florida time to your body), 24 hours off in PIT/EWR/etc to flip your body clock and fly 3 legs on day 4. Damn brutal and only worth around 19 hours since it's three duty periods.

I know exactly the trips you’re talking about and you need to be filing a fatigue report on each one. Even if you aren’t calling in fatigued you can file an informational. That last day is an accident waiting to happen. One leg from the NE early that morning to Florida is one thing but the kicker turn to the Caribbean is begging for fatal mistakes to be made.

Complete agree. I didn't realize we could do that without calling in fatigued.

Seems like a good way to set yourself up if something were to happen. “So you were fatigued, but didn’t call out?”