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Nov 30, 2015 | 3:23 pm

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Originally Posted by SeeBuyFly

CLT-FRA is a nonstop; AA704 does not have "both legs". It is presumably a turnaround flight, and the article mentions the return flight to CLT, so maybe the return flight (AA705) is considered a "leg" of AA704. But AFAIK neither pilots nor cabin crew can be the same on the outbound and subsequent (i.e. next day's) inbound---it would exceed the maximum continuous duty period.

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then resumed on the trip back to Charlotte with the same crew in place,

704 arrives at 11a. 705 leaves at 10:15a the next day. FA's need more than 23 hours between flights?

(assuming 704 left on the 22nd and arrived on the 23rd, then departed on the 24th. She couldn't leave on the 23rd from CLT and be on the flight back to CLT on the 24th. The article just says 23rd and 24th, there are not other non-stops between FRA and CLT)