Originally Posted by
Colonel_Klink
Thats all correct. And for further information, the reason why it’s a 5 day trip is you either need less than 18 hours rest or greater than 30 hours rest after a red eye. The fifth day is because the Company is rostering greater than 30 hours rest before you return to home base.
The reason there isn’t as much leverage as some pilots make out is the fact the company were clearly adamant about commencing and operating the flights into Japan. If push came to shove and the 5 day pairings issue was going to cause any issues to commencing the route, they would have rescheduled one of the CNS BNE flights to depart around 20:00, and the crew from Japan would have their 12 hours off in the hotel after the red eye, and then operated the CNS BNE flight that same day to complete their pairing within the allowable 4 days.
oh please. They wouldn’t have change a pairing like that to avoid paying a crew and extra couple of hundred bucks.