You can fly anywhere outside the country and still be "domestic".
..."and ANY specifically authorized point outside the United States"...
American Eagle has two certificates...The Simmons (MQ) certificate is the domestic certificate that the Saabs, ERJ's, and CRJ's operate under. It is a domestic certificate that also authorizes Eagle to go to Canada, Mexico, and the Bahamas. The Executive certificate are the ATR's. Each "Airline" has it's own Manuals, it's own Dispatch, it's own Crew Scheduling, it's own chief pilots.
American has a single certificate that with both Domestic and Flag authorization. From a pilot's perspective as an example, you have two choices if you were to bid LAX-FO...you can either bid LAX-FO-Domestic or LAX-FO-International. Although located in geographically the same place, each "base" is treated seperately, with seperate bid packets, seniority lists, vacation bids. Generally, the international base does international flying and the domestic base does domestic stuff, but they both overlap occassionally. LAX-JFK is an example (still?). The difference was an international crews trip might be LAX-JFK-LHR where a domestic crews trip would be LAX-JFK-ORD. The interesting part was when an international crew got to JFK, they would have to abide by Flag rest rules, and when a Domestic crew got to JFK they would abide by Domestic rest rules.
Don't worry about it too much...it all makes sense when you live it for a couple of months.
Later,
ig
..."and ANY specifically authorized point outside the United States"...
American Eagle has two certificates...The Simmons (MQ) certificate is the domestic certificate that the Saabs, ERJ's, and CRJ's operate under. It is a domestic certificate that also authorizes Eagle to go to Canada, Mexico, and the Bahamas. The Executive certificate are the ATR's. Each "Airline" has it's own Manuals, it's own Dispatch, it's own Crew Scheduling, it's own chief pilots.
American has a single certificate that with both Domestic and Flag authorization. From a pilot's perspective as an example, you have two choices if you were to bid LAX-FO...you can either bid LAX-FO-Domestic or LAX-FO-International. Although located in geographically the same place, each "base" is treated seperately, with seperate bid packets, seniority lists, vacation bids. Generally, the international base does international flying and the domestic base does domestic stuff, but they both overlap occassionally. LAX-JFK is an example (still?). The difference was an international crews trip might be LAX-JFK-LHR where a domestic crews trip would be LAX-JFK-ORD. The interesting part was when an international crew got to JFK, they would have to abide by Flag rest rules, and when a Domestic crew got to JFK they would abide by Domestic rest rules.
Don't worry about it too much...it all makes sense when you live it for a couple of months.
Later,
ig
