Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Slowplay likes to go on about how Delta could not afford to pay RJ drivers "Delta" pay. Actually, perhaps the inverse is true. Among the trips we can hold.
2 days are nearly always 10:30
3 days, 13:30
4 days, 21:00 (I've got an 18 hour 4 day next week
)
Here's the typical
07 673 ATL 1735 UIO 2258 5.23 700
08 1560 UIO 2340 ATL 0557 5.17
5.17B
5.17TL
2.50ADG
REGULAR- 13.30TL 10.40BL 2.50CR
Your premise is and always has been correct. The real reason for doing business this way started with malfeasance ( RJ self financing BS), then continued as a way to consistently B!tch$lap airline pilots and drive the overall profession down to a vocation. THAT is why it continues and that is what must be overcome, with, as you surmise, help from economic realities.