Deviate from Deadhead question.

I've got a trip I picked up that DH's to my hometown and then starts with the active legs. Haven't done this before. Do I book the trip to my hometown and then call in the morning to cancel that DH or do I just not even both to book the leg at all? I assume I just call scheduling prior to show time and tell them to sign me in and then meet the other pilot at the airport an hour prior to the active leg? Any of this sound correct?

thanks
HTBH

You don't book anything, if it starts with a DH to your hometown it's already built with a deadhead. Within 24 hours of your sign in for your rotation you call crew scheds and tell them that you are deviating from deadhead. They say ok then if you want to make sure it was done right look at your rotation and it will have a DD next to the first leg where it used to just have a D. You show up one hour before your first active leg and go from there.

08-02-2016, 03:55 PM

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Dirtdiver

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Originally Posted by HTBH

I don't know the exact rules, but it's fairly painless. I would call CS the day prior to let them know you're in position for the first live leg and ask when you can sign in. They put a note on your rotation, and split it up (dup1,dup2). Important in case they decide to reroute you.

It may be something like 4 hours prior to actually sign in. They used to make us nonrev to the base, sign in and DH back!

08-02-2016, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DALMD88FO

Got the DD on the first leg after speaking the schedulers. Last question (which I should have asked the schedulers but didn't and don't want to call them back...). Do I call in at the original show time? Or just an hour prior to the active leg? Or can I just sign in from the Delta computer at the Gate and not even have to call them?

08-02-2016, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by HTBH

You don't call at all. You're already deviated. No sign in. Just show at the gate 1 hour prior to pushback.

08-02-2016, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Simms41

You don't call at all. You're already deviated. No sign in. Just show at the gate 1 hour prior to pushback.

Got it. Big thanks to you and DALMD88FO for the info!

08-02-2016, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by BobZ

don't forget the hat.....

Again with the hat?... its part of the uniform and came with the pay raise you got... put it on, your not that handsome and your lettuce is not all that tight that it can't be covered up.

Carry on.

08-02-2016, 06:54 PM

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Pay Raise? Did I miss something?

08-02-2016, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JamesBond

Here in Florida we have mosquito control. They spray here. A lot. Zika is no real danger to YOU (unless you are a female). But you are right, there is no comparison. More people die from Malaria by a factor of probably hundreds of thousands than from Zika. A little perspective.

Malaria will be back in the USA before long too thanks to the environmentalists. Choices were made. Someday we have to deal with those consequences.

Zika is a concern for both males and females. It can be sexually transmitted, so if you plan on having kids it becomes an issue. Its been documented that it can stay in the male's system for months. They don't exactly know the maximum time it will remain.

Of course more people die from malaria, but the issue with Zika is not death, but rather microcephaly in newborns. Having a child with permanent brain defects because of unneeded travel is quite the risk. There is no cure, and it has lifelong consequences.

I personally bid around the trips to Central/South America and Caribbean. I don't bid FL trips mostly because I don't prefer them. I can see how people not planning on having kids may view the situation differently.

08-03-2016, 07:40 AM

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I know what the problems are with Zika. I live in Florida. We hear about it almost everyday here. That being said, do you think this is going to stop at the Florida border? It's here. Malaria will be in the not too distant future. Zika might be like the giant Ebola scare of 2015 and die out in a few months. It might not. My guess is that at some point you are going to have to fly into an area that found some mosquitos with Zika.

I guess if the company allows those trips to be dropped without pay it could gain traction, but it will open the Pandora's box of true MED destinations. I have no idea how they could allow people to drop MIA layovers where there have been a handful of Zika cases and force us to fly LOS where there is high malaria and terrorism.