Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 43; Flight Crew Total 5255; Flight Crew Type 1304
Fatigue
No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Company Policy
The issue is what happens [in the late afternoon between flights at an international terminal]. Required to stay on the plane while passengers disembark. About an hour with constant PA announcements. Then we are placed on an inter-terminal bus. Neither clean nor comfortable. This lasted just over 2 hours. We had to change buses once because the AC didn't work on the first bus. (NO CHANCE FOR ANY REST AT ALL!) Allowed back on the plane to perform pre-flight duties. Already on the back side of the clock and put in deplorable conditions without even a facility to use for personal hygiene/bodily functions. (NO REST ROOMS!) Fighting bad weather on the return [flight] made this a very frustrating and possibly dangerous situation. We both felt very fatigued during the return flight. There has to be a better way. Both of us passed out on the ride back to the hotel. (I almost never sleep on a bus.)
Air carrier Captain reported experiencing extreme fatigue on a two-leg international assignment.