Originally Posted by
DeadHead
I'd like to see something in the next contract that affords some extra pay credit for trips that aren't commutable. Basically if you start early on day one and finish late on your last day your losing 12 hours somewhere along the way.
I'm thinking instead of getting 5.15 hours of credit per duty day, maybe 3 hours of credit for every 12 hours of credit for each half of a duty day.
Just spitballing here.
WRT the first paragraph, the purpose (or at least, the result) of this would be to incentivize the company to offer commuteable trips. As some of us agreed earlier, trying to design
only commuteable trips, which isn't everyone's cup of tea. You might argue that I could fly one of the more rewarding non-commuteable trips, but I might argue they wouldn't make them.
End result: trying to pull the blanket too far one way. Fails.
WRT the second paragraph, it would be sufficient to have a certain ratio of credit time to TAFB, which I think our trip rig already does. I guess we would both be happy if that was improved?