If our pilots want hotel accomodation either prior to or after an out-of-base duty they know they only have to call us and we'll arrange it, no questions asked.
If an out-of-base duty has an 04:00 report then I wouldn't dream of sending them down immediately before the duty. By default I'd position them the previous day (By car, and a nice one, not a Minicab!) and they'd go into the hotel (A decent one) for their rest.
In cases where they're called out from Standby to an out-of-base duty I'll often have a car collect them from home if it helps the smooth running of the operation.
Reading this thread as a crewing bod from a charter airline I'm genuinely shocked at what RYR pilots put up with. Our cabin crews get better treatment than RYR pilots by the sounds of things.
