Cabin crew mode: keep work days out of your counters

Who it is for

Anyone whose job puts them in other countries without those days counting as presence under the rule they track: airline cabin and flight-deck crew, cruise and merchant ship crew, train crew on international routes. If your work travel is ordinary business travel, leave the mode off — for most rules a business day in a country is a day in that country, and excluding it would understate your count.

Step 1 — label your trips

Trip labels exist independently of the mode. The first time you open an unlabeled trip, Bounded asks How should we label this trip? with three answers:

• Work — every day of the trip was on duty.
• Personal — every day was your own time.
• Mixed — some of each. Bounded then asks you to Mark fewer days: pick the smaller group (Work or Personal) and tap those days on a calendar; the rest get the other label.

The question is asked once per trip. If you dismiss it, the trip stays unlabeled and Bounded does not ask again — but the trip screen keeps a Label this trip card, and Label trip in the trip actions reopens the same flow whenever you want to change your answer.

Step 2 — turn on Cabin crew mode

Go to You → Settings and switch on Cabin crew mode. The card’s footer states the rule in one sentence:

Days you label as Work don’t count toward your counters, except rules that count on-duty presence or days away from home. Personal and unlabeled days count as usual.

Counters, widgets, and exports recompute as soon as you flip the toggle. Turning the mode off puts every Work day back; your labels are kept either way.

What is excluded

With the mode on, Work-labeled days are left out of every counter that measures presence in a specific place: Schengen 90/180, 183-day tax-residency rules, visa stay caps, US state day counts, custom counters that count days in a region, and so on. Personal days, Mixed trips’ personal days, and unlabeled days count exactly as before — nothing is assumed about a day you have not labeled.

The exceptions that still count Work days

Some rules are written so that a duty day is a day like any other, and hiding it would hide a breach. Bounded keeps counting Work days in three cases, and says so in the counter’s breakdown:

• Days-away and days-abroad counters — any rule that measures absence from a place (residency-permit absence caps, days outside your home country, the “anywhere but” region). A duty day abroad is still a day away from home. Footnote: Cabin crew mode doesn’t apply here: days away on duty are still days away.
• The UK Statutory Residence Test — the SRT counts every midnight in the UK, layovers included (with a narrow transit exception). See the UK SRT counter and the rule itself.
• The US Substantial Presence Test — the IRS test counts days of physical presence regardless of purpose; its exemptions are narrow (transit stays under 24 hours, crew of a foreign vessel) and do not cover airline crew in general. See the SPT counter and the rule itself.

For the two tax tests the footnote reads: Cabin crew mode doesn’t apply here: this rule counts overnight layovers.

Checking a breakdown

1. 1On Home, tap a counter card to open its breakdown.
2. 2Look under the window heading. A presence counter shows N work days excluded by Cabin crew mode when the window contained Work days; an exempt counter shows one of the two “doesn’t apply here” footnotes instead. No footnote means the mode changed nothing for that window.
3. 3Compare the total with the trips listed below it — Work-labeled trips are still listed in your History, they simply do not add to a presence counter.

The PDF audit report carries the same disclosure, naming the counters that kept counting Work days, so anyone reading it can reconcile each row against its statute.