I’ve got a few rosters showing the complications I’ll see if I can find them.
All depends who working on the desks. I’ve was meant to do a flight to Murcia but one of the flight deck called sick last minute which meant the first officer couldn’t fly as he was new, So sent him home and changed is duty to a day off and sent a flight deck from BOH because they had no crew available anywhere closer which meant a delay of 4 hours. Murcia closed so we had to divert to Alicante and because the cabin crew hours were so high, we had to fly back empty as it wasn’t included in hours as we didn’t have passengers so that day we got paid for 2.5 hours worth of work for a 13 hours day.
But I’ve also had a situation where a pilot had to operate BHX-BZG-BHX-TFS (in the end he did a 22 hour shift started at 5am landed at 3am the next day) because another pilot called sick and the operations thought it would be a better idea to fly the replacement pilot from STN to TFS instead of a taxi to BHX. Only problem was when we landed in TFS the replacement hadn’t even taken off yet and to make things worse because I was called of standby my hours was in danger of not being able to operate and because no one else was trained to be SCCM which meant the aircraft was going to have to stay but we managed to get away with a Minute to spare because the original captain set the aircraft up so we could just go when the replacement got onboard.
I’ve had it when I’ve been called to operate out EMA,BRS, LTN,STN,MAN by taxi or even flown to CRL via DUB it just depends on who available and hours and how much compensation will need to paid out.
