Originally Posted by
LeineLodge
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.
I just went and looked at the trip, the block is only 38 hours, with 24 hours of credit due to two dead heads, ATL-MSP-ATL and two 48 hour layovers in NRT. On paper it's a 10 day trip, but it starts and ends with a DH to/from MSP, so you'd need a big hole in your schedule to stuff one in there, but there were 25 of them in the pot after the PBS runs, and as of yesterday there were zero, all of them have been picked up.
8 days of work, 4 of which you will be sitting in the Narita Radisson getting your FAR 117 required rest.
A 16 day month for 124 hours.
Take THAT SWA!
Gonna be some big paychecks come Feb 15! (not that there's anything wrong with that) and the Reserves will all be flying to Joburg, that seems to be the prevalent trip in open time now that they've all been swapped for the 62hr. Singapore trip.
So the quarterly Block Hour Limit only applies to BLOCK time, not credit too?
OK, I guess it's Game On!
