Originally Posted by mizzou miles
I would be very very shocked if the same crew that just flew in from LAX turned around and flew back to LAX on the same flight. That would be a very very long duty period in a single day. 99% of the time, I see my transcon crews waiting for either a hotel bus or an employee bus right after a flight...
The duty day would be about 13.5 hours. Long but legal.
Last year I flew SFO-PIT red-eye on US. It was the same crew that had just come in from PIT. The next day I flew PIT-SFO in the evening. I recognized one of the crew from the night before. He was doing another PIT-SFO-PIT all nighter. That would have been about 12 hours rest between red-eyes.