Air Transat Augmentation rules
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Air Transat Augmentation rules
Can someone from Transat please answer this question?
What is min leg length without augmentation at your airline?
Thanks
What is min leg length without augmentation at your airline?
Thanks
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Re: Air Transat Augmentation rules
Supposedly 13 hours, but not always apparently. 2nd hand info.3down&loct wrote:Can someone from Transat please answer this question?
What is min leg length without augmentation at your airline?
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Re: Air Transat Augmentation rules
I stand to be corrected but as far as I know every carrier but AC operates to the CAR's. That means a 14 hour duty day (or night) that can be extended an additional hour with an augment pilot. Leg length has nothing to do with it, it is strictly duty time as far as the CAR's are concerned.3down&loct wrote:Can someone from Transat please answer this question?
What is min leg length without augmentation at your airline?
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Re: Air Transat Augmentation rules
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We aren't necessarily scheduled for a 14+ hr duty day when augmented. Many times they will schedule a third pilot just in case. Ie: yyz - San Jose winter time sometimes comes in at less than a 14hr duty day but they almost always augment it.
We aren't necessarily scheduled for a 14+ hr duty day when augmented. Many times they will schedule a third pilot just in case. Ie: yyz - San Jose winter time sometimes comes in at less than a 14hr duty day but they almost always augment it.
It is better to be sitting on the ground wishing you were in the air than being in the air wishing you were on the ground
Re: Air Transat Augmentation rules
Problem is unless you have a bunk or a J seat for one pilot to rest in, you just end up with 3 tired pilots in the FD instead of 2. Hardly a big increase in safety.
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Re: Air Transat Augmentation rules
bcflyer wrote:Problem is unless you have a bunk or a J seat for one pilot to rest in, you just end up with 3 tired pilots in the FD instead of 2. Hardly a big increase in safety.
We have a Club Class seat reserved for breaks.
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Re: Air Transat Augmentation rules
14 hours through the night with no augment? JFC!
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Re: Air Transat Augmentation rules
The majority of our augmented flights are day time flights. If duty is around 13:45 they put an extra FO on.