Originally Posted by
slowplay
I don't know. As Sailing pointed out, there are a lot of things in management's control that they can use to adjust their needs for reserves. We wouldn't like many of those things.
In my view it behooves both parties to negotiate.
Remember, you won't need too many short call pilots with 10 hours of uninterrupted rest, if you just re-route a crew that's already sitting in the pilot lounge, i.e. sitting Airport Standby.
Look at Narita, it's the biggest pilot base we've never had, with constant re-routes of the 757/767/A330/777/747 crews laying over there, and now, with all the new 48 hour layovers, it's just going to get worse.
Basically, as soon as you sign in, you're on short call AND airport standby.