PWMRamper From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 574 posts, RR: 3 Posted (3 years 10 months 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1949 times:
I know it probably varies based on the situation, but in general, how many hours is a crew allowed to fly/sit at the gate due to delays before clocking out?
Pilotpip From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3084 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (3 years 10 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1924 times:
We can be on duty for 16 hours a day. What varies is the amount of rest we have to receive. We can be scheduled to fly 8 hours per day but can go over that for items like weather as you stated. The most I've blocked in one day was just over 9 hours.
LongHauler From Canada, joined Mar 2004, 4281 posts, RR: 36 Reply 2, posted (3 years 10 months 6 days ago) and read 1854 times:
Our max duty day is 13 hours, or 14 hours if you are staying in that time zone, (or 10 hours, 12 hours, 16 hours, or 18 hours ... depending on the start time, crew compliment, route or aircraft on-board facilities).
If the occurrence you mention is the crew's first mission of the day, then one has a lot of leeway to wait out delays. However, if it is the last leg of a 12 hour day, then maybe not so much time ... even for a short leg.
Usually these duty day limitations, while checked by the crew, are monitored and enforced by Crew Scheduling in consort with Systems Operational Control. Namely for reasons we can not see in the aircraft, the flights may be canceled due to delays. So we would just get a data-link message telling us the flight is canceled long before it becomes a limitation.
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