Originally Posted by sailingfun

Rumor only however it looks like the CDO's were not pushed hard by the company. They were desired and requested by pilots who were flying them and wanted them back. They will go very senior at a 7.5 minimum. It will be interesting to see how often the company uses them with that type of credit. I suspect in the end it might turn out to be much ado about nothing just like the 2 man ops to Europe forum hysterics a year ago.
Don't plan on those 30 hour layovers going away. The company will build trips that minimize credit. How the company does that with a 5:15 daily minimum will be interesting. Perhaps more 5 day trips. The same on transcon turns. I don't think you will see any of those. If you pull the long legs out of the trip mix it becomes very difficult to not see a large credit increase on other rotations. You need those long legs to avoid credit. It would not make sense to add a third pilot on some legs and increase credit. I suspect the relief pilot option was geared at a couple of specific flights the company wants to fly in the Central America market or NRT market.