Company Rostering Policies
Is there any UK airline (apart from the one that I work for!) where it is company policy for days off to finish on lates and start on earlies. E.g. off duty at 10.30pm on Sunday and back on duty at 6.30am on Wednesday.
If your duty week are earlies then expect the day before the day off to be a late so as to accommodate this company policy.
2 periods of three days off are supposed to be assigned in a rolling 2 month pattern - but if you have leave then it is counted as being part of that.
Just looking for any parallels in a substantial airline in the UK.