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11-07-2022, 05:55 AM
#3251
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Just want to clarify for everyone following along with the SC / air commute posts…
If you have been assigned SC, you absolutely can commute in, even via air, to be in position for SC, and you can even do it during the first two hours of the SC assignment. You just have to notify Scheds that you will be unavailable for contract during the firs two hours.
What you can not do, is be sitting at your commute airport while on SC and if assigned a rotation, jump on a plane to then commute in within the “2-ish” hours.
If you have been assigned SC, you absolutely can commute in, even via air, to be in position for SC, and you can even do it during the first two hours of the SC assignment. You just have to notify Scheds that you will be unavailable for contract during the firs two hours.
What you can not do, is be sitting at your commute airport while on SC and if assigned a rotation, jump on a plane to then commute in within the “2-ish” hours.
11-07-2022, 11:01 AM
#3252
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It cost me an extra night in a hotel.
11-08-2022, 09:26 AM
#3255
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Ive spent many hours staring out the window of the JFK and LGA Skyclubs with this exact arrangement.
11-09-2022, 10:25 AM
#3257
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That's why no matter what even if I'm at the airport in uniform. I tell them I'll be there in 2 hours. They don't do favors for me so I just fly the contract.
11-09-2022, 10:30 AM
#3258
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Yep. Assigned short call, call them to tell them I will be uncontactable and if they ask which airport (JFK Normally) I tell them the one most convienient for me. Of course, they give me a EWR "how soon can you be there" and then if they offer to send a cab, I'll take it. Otherwise the contractual EWR cab amount doesn't cover it most days, so off to the A train I go. I'll be there in 3-4 hours.
11-09-2022, 01:50 PM
#3259
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That's bad luck, cause I literally have used this technique about 50 times over the last 9 yrs at different periods when I've bid reserve and have never been denied the early release. I have been put on Sked hold for nearly an hour once and nearly missed my commute flight home, but they answered at the last minute. Sometimes I'll call 3 out and ask about a flight leaving just before the 2hrs and they just release me then, especially if they have already assigned flying to me for the next day.
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