Pilots travelling with their company
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Pilots travelling with their company
Just a quick question. Do Pilots travelling with their employers (and not flying the a/c themselves) be it for positioning flights or general travel get to travel in Business/First Class if there are spare seats? I might get laughed off the forum for asking this but I was under the impression this used to be usual practice. Obviously its a different world nowadays! Does it still occur?
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Do Pilots travelling with their employers (and not flying the a/c themselves) be it for positioning flights or general travel get to travel in Business/First Class if there are spare seats?
Obviously, it is better that one paying passenger should be involuntarily denied boarding than that 500 passengers should be grounded because a pilot does not show up to fly the plane. And duty travel ought to be first class rather than economy seat or jumpseat: would you feel safe landing if the pilots flew 8 hours previous AND spent the 16 hours immediately preceding in an economy seat?
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would you feel safe landing if the pilots flew 8 hours previous AND spent the 16 hours immediately preceding in an economy seat?
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That pilot wouldn't be allowed to operate. Positioning before a flight duty counts as duty time. Flight time limitations would kick in and stipulate a minimum rest period.
After all, you have the A340-500 and B777-200LR planes which land after 18 or 19 hours airborne. Someone must land them. They have to rest somehow when airborne. An economy seat probably does not qualify as rest, and neither would jumpseat. But does a first/business class seat qualify as rest?
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Straying slightly from the thread, is it frowned upon for flight deck members to talk to pax during a flight? Of course, I'm talking long-haul and when the crew are not on duty on the flight deck. I've never seen this happen.
Similarly, one hardly ever sees pilots outside the flight deck by the main door saying goodbye to passengers. Is this just a consequence of shorter turnarounds and more concentrated flying?
Similarly, one hardly ever sees pilots outside the flight deck by the main door saying goodbye to passengers. Is this just a consequence of shorter turnarounds and more concentrated flying?
