Originally Posted by
DAL73n
ACL,
It's worse than that in some bases. If you look at LAX bid packs (unless you're very senior) the trips rarely average more than 4:30/day (so let's celebrate 4:30) and not all trips will benefit from the new trip rigs (and anyone who thinks they won't move some of the red-eyes after 2200 is kidding themselves). At 4:30 in 72 ALV month that means working 16 days/month and in an 84 ALV month that means working 18.7 days. If I wanted to work that many days I would find a job that let's me sleep in my own bed every night and pays more. Oh by the way, some of those 10:30 three days in LAX still aren't eliminated with the new 4:30 guarantee so my number of days of work may be low.
LA has some of the worst trips I have seen in part because of the island flying. Your numbers however are not true. In June in the 767 category the daily average paid was 5.20 minutes. Thats for any calender day that touched a trip. There were a lot of 3 day trips with 30 to 32 hours TAFB. The average line was 81.8 hours and the average pilot had 15.6 days off or worked 14.4
The numbers due include vacation and vacation hours paid.