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I guess our contract isn't so bad after all. I too, thought the industry blew us out of the water with rigs. The thing that kills us at HAL are the inefficient low crediting 3 day west-coast trips. Those are what cause guys to have to waive days off to just hold a bid-line. If we got paid for day 2 of the trip, with a better rig or "min day" those bad boys would be gold on the bid-line, not a detriment.
did you see how next month all the PDX and SFO's are 2 day? But the time on the ground is less than 12 hours ... that's a bit tight, and might cause delays. This may also have to do with the daylight savings time schedule for Summer.
Yeah, I had hopped rigs were in better shape too... we may have to do some heavy lifting (again) to bring those rigs up a bit.. 2010 we did it for hourly pay.. so it's par for the course.
would love to hear from someone at Alaska on what they got in their most recent contract..
I think we need to look more seriously at international overrides and night overrides .. looks like the guys at JetBlue have all of us beat in that department.
A guy flying a trip to Japan or Australia should get a premium over the guy doing the west coast milk runs..