Originally Posted by
Timbo
Oh, ok, only 87 hours.
Yeah, I was WAYYY off...
My point was, why is there no ALV+15 limit with swaps?
And, can you get more time using swap with the pot, or pick up trips off the pilot to pilot board if you are at the quarterly block hour limit? If the quarterly block hour limit will prevent it, that's a good thing and over time it should even out.
With our new 62hr. trips, most of which are in open time after the PBS run, there are a lot of guys swapping to get 124hr. lines now. Will they hit the quarterly block hour limit if they do that two months in a row? (248hrs.)
What type of a line can PBS build them if they are at 248 going into the third month of the quarter? Or can they just bid reserve and they take the month off?
Is there a lot of credit in these trips? How are they getting around the 100 hours in 672 limit? Another thing they might not see coming until the FEB bid is processed is you can't load up the end of one month without limiting yourself (albeit to 100 hours in 672) in the beginning of the next month. Basically guys will get stuck in a rut of being "heavy" in the same part of subsequent months, or having to fly less to stay under that rolling limit. It's no longer 100/calendar month like it used to be.
That plus the BHL should keep this new "gold mine" from getting too wildly out of control - I hope.