Originally Posted by
BigGuns
As pilots this is going to kill us at Delta. We have to many categories in one city each night. It will be very very hard to stage crews. We must get min credit pay for those lost days/overnights, or we will see a lot more weak <18 hour four day trips... I'll have to work 20 days a month just to get 70 hours of pay!
All the more reason rigs and a fair min day are vital in C2012. The company chooses to operate a million fleet types and in all honestly there is some revenue generating and optimizing premiums in doing so. But the blowback is more and more cities with scenarios like this. Not our problem. DH us to and from on DCI or offline if necessary or pay us for our time to sit around all day to support the operation while not flying.
When we very reasonably make the case for SWA+ reasonable premiums (to account for significantly higher revenue generated per pilot compared to SWA) for small narrowbody planes and up from there, the compay will try and "counter" with "but we demand SWA productivity. We should counter their counter by saying "Yes! We agree! We will be happy to accept SWA daily credit via rigs or block time, however you want to work it, while also getting average SWA days off for lineholders and reserves at the narrowbody level and SWA average W-2's for small narrowbodys, plus reasonable premiums because we generate way more revenue per pilot, and up from there for larger planes.
If the company insists on sitting us 30 hours in hotels but then squeals about SWA productivity, throw that straw man right back in their lap.