Originally Posted by
scambo1
Finis;
Your statement contradicted itself.
Trip parking is what enables guys to exceed the pickup limit.
How can you whiteslip and hope something fits if all your trips are too high time.
My reality: Trip parking has enabled lineholders to regularly exceed 90 and 100 hours/month. This has resulted in lower reserve utilization which has resulted in beancounters counting 15 extra beans in each ATL 777 seat.
While I totally disagree with trip parking and think DALPA should step in to attempt to ban the practice I don't think its the biggest issue on the 777. They are getting by with fewer reserves because many reserves yellow high the long trips waiving their days off. This eliminates the need for the company to carry extra reserves to cover long blocks. I have no problem with a reserve doing this. Its the intent of the contract that they are allowed this option. Its not the intent of the contract for a regular line holder to park trips and that practice can take money out of other pilots pockets.