Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
Trips today pay 5:15 per qualifying duty period (DPA), which excludes deadhead-only duty periods, duty periods in which all flight are cancelled, etc. We have plenty of 3-day trips with a 30-hour layover worth 14 hours or so, and a pop-up trip that flies to a layover and deadheads back might be worth only 7:15.
Also, DPA does not apply to a reserve pilot.
OK - The DH portion makes sense to me but my point is that the trips that don't have a duty period are already covered by the 4:30 ADG and they are a small percentage of trips.
As far as reserve pilots getting DPA I guess it affects people in different seats/bases differently. I fly mostly reserve and have been doing so for 15 years - never broke the reserve guarantee once so I don't really care what each indidviudal trip pays when I am on reserve.
I guess this would benefit the guys who are routinely flown above the guarantee, and obviously on a reserve GS this would be important.
I guess what I am saying is we already have a DPA of 5:15 so why wouldn't we be looking at 5:30, 5:45 etc?
Scoop
