Originally Posted by
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Trip parking definitely contributed to the "surplus" we had on the 777 this last AE.
How could it not?
Management loves it and ALPA seems to as well. They even gave us that recent swap "improvement" of letting guys pick up trips that take them within 30 minutes of a FAR violation instead of the 1 hour rule we've had for years.
Gee thanks. There goes some more jobs.
Well, lets see. How long have we been using the current manning formula? About what, five to six years?, since the introduction of PBS.
We have gone though at least a cycle and a half of data in that time to see what they truly can staff the airplane at. If guys were Trip Parking en masse it did contribute to it. I suspect it was a player.