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Old Jan 17, 2014 | 11:12 pm
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Originally Posted by SBFlyerUA
I've been waiting about two hours for a late United Express flight and now they've announced an additional delay because the crew requested "crew rest." I know there are rules on rest required, but I've never seen one requested by the crew. Perhaps the GA is wrong, but not experienced this one before.
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Somehow I get the feeling that the UAX announcement (announcer) read the code wrong - they probably saw something like "crew rest required" but read it as requested (RQD maybe?) or they simply don't know what they are reading ?
Odd.
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