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crewdawg , 07-06-2024 05:21 AM
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NB is a different air line lol
Ya but don't think they won't try to get away with 2 pilot crews when they can. I never experienced it as a scheduled trip, but did have it happen when the other FO got sick in Europe. We flew to BOS as a 2 mam crew to pick up a new crew to finish the trip. I'm sure they'll try, have it bite them, and try again lol.
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GivemeVSP , 07-06-2024 05:36 AM
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The short answer is 117 table B limits.
10 am CDG departure means an 8:30 duty start, which is 2:30am on the east coast. If that crew did a 24 hour overnight that leaves just 9 hours of duty. Hardly any time to absorb any kind of delay. The way I understand the law is EU requires DL to pay $700 per pax of a flight that is delayed by more than 3 hours for controllable reasons, and lack of crew availability is considered controllable.
They could acclimate crews to Europe time with 48 hour overnights, but then you are paying 21 hours each to 2 pilots, which seems close to a wash compared to 16 hours each to 3.
Why does the flight have to depart at 10am? Whats keeping management from adjusting it to a 1 or 2pm departure? They could easily do that with the number of departures per day out of these places. Just send ATL back early with the 3 man crew.
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iaflyer , 07-06-2024 05:45 AM
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Why does the flight have to depart at 10am? Whats keeping management from adjusting it to a 1 or 2pm departure? They could easily do that with the number of departures per day out of these places. Just send ATL back early with the 3 man crew.
Network connections. Also, there are already 3 flights a day CDG-ATL on Delta (9am, noon and 4pm), so along with 3 that AF flies (10:30, 2pm and 5:30pm, they are scattered throughout the day.
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And you think they wont try? They do close to max duty days and flight time in the NB every time they can.
1)spare crews are a lot easier to find and get into place in the US
2) there are not steep fines for controllable delays within the US.
they may try, but what I was responding to is why flights currently on the schedule for less than 8 block are still scheduled with 3 pilots.
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Why does the flight have to depart at 10am? Whats keeping management from adjusting it to a 1 or 2pm departure? They could easily do that with the number of departures per day out of these places. Just send ATL back early with the 3 man crew.
it does not have to, and I have flow DUB-BOS as a 2 pilot crew and it was scheduled for the afternoon for that reason. But typically flights leave Europe earlier than that for BOS/JFK.
Any flight that leaves mainland EU before 12:30pm or the British isles before 11:30am is going to have little to no room for delay if flown 2 pilot, and therefore will probably be flown with 3 even if under 8 block on the return flight
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1)spare crews are a lot easier to find and get into place in the US
2) there are not steep fines for controllable delays within the US.
they may try, but what I was responding to is why flights currently on the schedule for less than 8 block are still scheduled with 3 pilots.
What you have listed is correct. The duty day limit is a issue. When 117 first came out we flew most of the UK with two man crews. 117 changed the block limit from 8 to 9 and the forum panicked that most of Europe would be two man crews. Reliability would have dropped. The actual result of 117 was we have more not less 3 man crews. We do however have two man crews on some BOS flights. I am sure the company can run a flight history on each route and quickly figure out if a two man crew will work. Currently CDG is blocked at 8:00 so legal for two contractually. Any delays however would result in a duty day timeout. Until the 330 base in BOS gets fully staffed and running no one here knows. If they do staff with 3 another issue is will they dispatch with two if a FO calls out sick or has a commute failure. Not sure how that might work contractually. I did once have a FO pulled from my BOS flight in Europe to cover a sick FO on the ATL flight and was told it was legal.
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The DTW departure screens?
They have departure screens for next summer up already?
A quick look at next summer for dtw
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Where do you see this sort of info?
its pretty top secret -I go on travelnet and look as far out as it can go and type in the city
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They have departure screens for next summer up already?
“A quick look at next summer for dtw…”
Well I did miss the "next" summer part, but really, DTW doesn't add much in the way of int'l flights. It's been a looong time since a new European destination has been added on the Int'l side. I think Munich was the last one, and that was added in 2016.
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1)spare crews are a lot easier to find and get into place in the US
2) there are not steep fines for controllable delays within the US.
they may try, but what I was responding to is why flights currently on the schedule for less than 8 block are still scheduled with 3 pilots.
More or less. That's why I posted earlier maybe BOS-LHR-BOS might get away with 2 person crew. The rest most likely not.
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What you have listed is correct. The duty day limit is a issue. When 117 first came out we flew most of the UK with two man crews. 117 changed the block limit from 8 to 9 and the forum panicked that most of Europe would be two man crews. Reliability would have dropped. The actual result of 117 was we have more not less 3 man crews. We do however have two man crews on some BOS flights. I am sure the company can run a flight history on each route and quickly figure out if a two man crew will work. Currently CDG is blocked at 8:00 so legal for two contractually. Any delays however would result in a duty day timeout. Until the 330 base in BOS gets fully staffed and running no one here knows. If they do staff with 3 another issue is will they dispatch with two if a FO calls out sick or has a commute failure. Not sure how that might work contractually. I did once have a FO pulled from my BOS flight in Europe to cover a sick FO on the ATL flight and was told it was legal.
They know the stats. I don't see many of the BOS-XXX-BOS trips (maybe other than LHR) being anything but 3 person crews. Especially wintertime heading west bound. I guess we'll see soon enough once they start constructing the bid packs for BOS originating flights.
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