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Old Dec 19, 2013 | 4:30 pm
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Originally Posted by MARIOCASTRO777
This week I went on UA 1035 from IAH to UIO and can right back on UA 1036 to IAH , I had the same plane crew we just had 70 minutes between flights.
It's 5 hours down and 5 hours return is a lot of time for a crew to be in 737 , also the flight leaves at 5 pm and comes back at 5 am.
Not even CM does that with all their flights to South America that are 5 hours they change crews
I believe this is one of the differences between the PMCO and PMUA FA contracts. PMCO allows FAs to do turns, where PMUA did not, in regards to transcons, and long haul flights.

A lot of other airlines do this, too. B6 allows their crews to do turns on nearly all transcons.
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