It's incredible how AA still cannot run these flights consistently on time.

Stuff happens such as weather or mechanical that stops a 100% on time performance.

Of course, the end of the month is a tough time as crew run out of hours.

Put a flight alert on your email and check your phone every half hour or so. Even if they reduce the delay given the long haul nature of the flight I would be comfortable that there would be enough advance notice for you to cut short the visit to the centre and get back to the airport to make it given you won't need to to check in, check luggage, etc.

I believe the calendar month constraint has been replaced by a rolling 28-day constraint.

Sorry if there's something newer. This is from May '13.

A flightcrew member is limited to 100 hours of flight time in 672 consecutive hours (28 days). This is a “rolling” 672 hours and replaces the former requirements of 100 hours in any calendar month and the former monthly and quarterly limits for international augmented operations.

http://www3.alpa.org/portals/alpa/co...quirements.pdf

Sure it is. Airline said that the flight was delayed, OP relied on that information, so they were late. I don't know why you think that would be more upsetting to AA than an actual flat tire or think this would be a particularly abusive invocation of the rule.

Huh? Who would be lying? The flat tire rule doesn't require an actual flat tire. Just show up to the airport within two hours of the original flight time and say you thought the flight was delayed and I'd be very surprised if there would be any problem at all.

Having said that, the rule is not very useful if there's no later flights that day since it just allows you to standby later the same day. In practice, though, I've had agents just confirm me on flights later the same day or even the next day. Not sure how much discretion they have these days, though.

Are you familiar with the current AA/APA contract? I know back in the day when sideletters had to be negotiated to support what was then new ultra-long range flying for AA beyond the scope of the then current contract, there were some VERY generous layover time provisions in those sideletter agreements.

Although I don't remember any of them being as generous as QF flight attendants' contractual right to at least 72-hour layovers when working SYD-LAX/SFO.

Back to the overall theme of this thread though, I'm surprised at the amount of advice on this thread suggesting that OP need worry that AA might pull forward a posted crew rest delay at a spoke station that gets two flights a day and is located 15 hours flying time from the nearest AA crew base. Think through how airlines really work, folks.

If there is any delay that is safe to assume accurate, it's the one posted by OP.

LIB. MR Ducks.

Don't FAs only get paid for flight time? If so, why would you want 40 hrs of rest time when you can be earning money?

Exactly. Same for pilots.

There are minimums per day, or per hour on duty or away from base, called rigs. When you fly trips that only pay rig (the 'hard time' is less than the 'rig time') you end up flying more days per month to make the same pay. The more productive trips will go more senior as they allow you to make more money in fewer days of work.

EF is listing a delay I have due to “crew availability,” which sounds like an AA issue. Even if weather, they should have enough crew. I’m going to misconnect. Does AA cover hotels for EPs/CKs in this situation?

Theoretically yes for everyone from CK to peasant if not weather. But the good old days of getting the four-star on-airport hotel are over. Not to mention they run out of vouchers, and "weather" elsewhere counts. Let us know where they offer you.