That horse has been beaten here to a fine pulp over the years, so sorry if I didn't expand on it, but what's one more after hundreds right?
So here we go: You get your schedule the 20th of every month, you see that you are scheduled to finish on a Tuesday at noon JST, if you want a C class ticket for that month, you fill out an application where you will let them know that you want to travel from NRT(or HND) to XXX on that Tuesday after 13:00 JST. Provided there isn't a disruption due to WX or something un foreseen, they will book you on the next available flight that Tuesday after 13:00 JST. If the next available flight FOR THAT DAY....! Is not an ANA flight because they are all gone, the travel agency will look for an option on another Star alliance carrier, if there isn't a flight on another star alliance carrier, then they will book you on another carrier THAT DAY! They will try their best to honor sending you home after you are done because they want you to honor coming back to work when you are supposed to, it is NOT about saving a couple of dollars here and there. There is no "pushing" to the next day because that will open the Pandora's box of people "pushing" coming back to work. Make sense?
Haven said that, that doesn't mean you will finish every month with time enough to go home the last day of duty, they have been known to place something ridiculous on your last day (like evening STBY, or ground school, medical, for example) that will make it impossible to leave the last day of duty. Most of the time you are able to leave the same day but it is not a given...!
Last edited by The Dominican; 1st Oct 2013 at 02:47.