Originally Posted by
sbm12
If they do an augmented crew to allow the turn with the same FAs would that get to an equivalent block hour time?
Or maybe something else comes along, I suppose. But this is the first new GUM service announced after the SGN cut.
I suspect the flight could be augmented it with a 5th F/A, but operating the flight as a turn with minimum crew is 'legal' under the current contract (Jose can probably correct me if I am wrong) as both flights are blocked right around 4h. My guess is they'll add one more day-of-week turn to PVG, so as not to double capacity, and perhaps add frequency elsewhere.
At the pointy end, I believe GUM-PVG gets a relief pilot to allow the flight to operate as a turn and avoid laying over the flight crew on a 2x/weekly (at the moment) service.