Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I agree with the ULH rules. Now that they are stating three B's and one A, I expect DAL to push for what the rest of the industry is doing. Thing is they stated they were doing it for safety, so that might be an interesting one to get around. Like you said, watch their feet. That is a ton of high paying seats.
Correct, although I'm more concerned with eliminating one position than I am about turning one CA position into an FO position. Either way you get rid of one CA position. But replacing that seat with an FO seat is preferable to eliminating the seat completely.
I had assumed that the ULH relief in the new FTDT mirrored the 9+ hour rules whereby the block time was a hard time at throttle up with no "legal to start" nonsense in it. Pushing the envelope to get an extra hour out of a 3 man crew wouldn't make any more sense than it would with a 2 man crew on an 8-9 hour hard time block day. High risk, low reward. One 777/747 canceling on the other side of the world and its ripple effects would cancel out an unfathomable amount of "savings" from dropping the 4th pilot on that percentage of flights, CA or FO.