Originally Posted by
cosflyer
had a family member that flew for ua 20 years ago and these were called mother trips, work the last flight out of ord-mid west cities and work the first one back in the AM...they were still on the "clock" on their short layover and it was pretty senior according to her as you were home by 8-9am and had the day to your self.
Rest rules (union and regulatory) have changed sufficiently in the past 20 years that I'm not sure this would work any more.
I did a couple IAH-SEA-IAH overnight turns (late IAH-SEA, redeye SEA-IAH) with the same crew a couple consecutive days. They liked it because it was a good ratio of worked hours to time away and they could still take the kids to school and pick them up after. But I don't think the FAT turn on this schedule would allow that.
And I'm 99.9% certain the pilots couldn't do it as the overnight turn even if they wanted to due to more strict FAA rules.