I say the same thing, where “flying” is transit time between places, even if there’s a layover. There’s a difference being at home and “on duty” as in on-call and ready to go and being stuck in an airport for 10 hours because you’re doing a Chicago-LA-Chicago return and stuck in LA because the shitter’s broke on the plane you took there and need to get back to O’Hare.
Seriously, that person is not at home and not able to really have control over their own time because of their job. It’s more than being just “on duty” in a sense that they shouldn’t be getting paid.
I didn’t want to get in the weeds for an audience that doesn’t need to know the differences between reserves or being stuck at an airport all day on a trip that went bad over weather or maintenance. Yeah, there’s different kinds of duty, but for this argument I’d suggest the latter is far more likely. Long days made worse due to some disruption where you might only get one or two legs done on an RJ.
I say the same thing, where “flying” is transit time between places, even if there’s a layover. There’s a difference being at home and “on duty” as in on-call and ready to go and being stuck in an airport for 10 hours because you’re doing a Chicago-LA-Chicago return and stuck in LA because the shitter’s broke on the plane you took there and need to get back to O’Hare.
Seriously, that person is not at home and not able to really have control over their own time because of their job. It’s more than being just “on duty” in a sense that they shouldn’t be getting paid.
I didn’t want to get in the weeds for an audience that doesn’t need to know the differences between reserves or being stuck at an airport all day on a trip that went bad over weather or maintenance. Yeah, there’s different kinds of duty, but for this argument I’d suggest the latter is far more likely. Long days made worse due to some disruption where you might only get one or two legs done on an RJ.