I sometimes get aggravated that passengers think we're up the there ready to delay or cancel a flight as a bonus to us and to screw the passenger. So, although they set out to complete the flight, after 20-30 minutes of departure delays, several issues could have come into play as a reason to cancel the flight. getting stuck at the outstation, the company needed the plane for other scheduled flights, it would have delayed flights for the next day, any other operational reason). But there could have been many contributing factors on their return flight from their round trip that (after unscheduled delays) could have pushed their duty time to a limit that wasn't worth completing the first of the round trip flight (i.e. This was most likely the case for this crew. As an airline pilot, we want to complete every flight we are scheduled to fly.
Yeah - it would just be nice to be better informed about how those rules workedīTW- I forgot to add the best part! one of the reasons we were delayed leaving the gate was that they needed to add oxygen so that an employee could ride the jumpseat to "audit" the flight.There are so many factors that can contribute to why the crew had to cancel the flight due to crew flight requirements. If you're that worried about canceling a flight why not bring in a replacement crew right away instead of risking a high probability of it happening in PBI? It seemed to me that the flight crew was pretty happy about getting timed out, does that mean they get paid for the flights that they would have had to do anyway? My Thoughts/Questions : IAH>PBI is a short flight, and i know they had a return PBI>IAH after ours, but it really surprised me that ~1h+ delay would cause the crew to time out.the flight attendant said that they weren't going to time out on the way to PBI but rather the way back.which I assume meant that they had no back up crews in PBI so that that if the crew went, and got timed out, UA would need to cancel the flight from PBI>IAH (but it seems like that could have happened anyway if there was the tiniest of delays in PBI) I was hoping someone could shed some light on crew timeouts, apologies if this is discussed somewhere else:īackground: I was on a UA flight IAH>PBI on Friday (though i guess technically it was operated by sky west) and we were a little delayed by an incoming aircraft but probably departed the gate ~45 late, taxied out to the run way, were told we were 10th for takeoff and that it would be another ~30 min, after about 20 or so minutes the pilots said they had "timed out" and returned to the gate where hopefully another crew would take us.without getting into all the nonsense that followed and typical confusion and finger pointing, i was hoping someone could explain how this works, and the incentives.
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