Like I said, the company tends to run lean... and a lot of the pilots like it that way (at least the vocal minority).. Crew planning will "Flex" lines up to 80 hours min sometimes. The contract says they're limited to 6 months of 12, but I swear they've done it more in the past calendar year. The typical lines ar 8x hours, and many opt to fly over 90... 90 is the limit for pay, but they bank the rest of the hours for a month where they might not fly as much or have training. BTW, our training months here are also a disaster... worse I've seen in 6 different airlines/jobs..

There's a lot for us to fix in the next CBA, we have a motivated negotiation team (though I'd rather see us get a professional negotiator). The good news is most of us aren't happy with the status quo, and many of us see what DAL, UAL and AA are doing, although AK did not help us much with their last CBA.. but remember this is also one of a few ALPA airlines where guys were flying overtime while their brothers were on the street furloughed.. so the culture here has to change, it's quite selfish and somewhat dysfunctional for such a smallish pilot group, and with the influx of a lot of us newer pilots and some of the Aloha guys it likely will change for the better... Rigs, pay, etc...