Originally Posted by
Whidbey
So on a 2300 launch, midnight land, half hour car time on either side of three hours of rack time, we're on the hook for up to nine hours of dealing with ground stops, delays, etc?
I'm a no on this single issue. This is well beyond trading work rules for pay and into trading safety for pay.
One more thought- guys are talking about the 88 fleet seeing a lot of this, but lets remember that we're bringing a lot of RJ block hours to mainline. To see the potential for the company to use these things going forward, we need to be looking at how they're done at DCI carriers, now how they could be made to fit current bid packages.
Looking at the DCI carriers wouldn't be appropriate as they have crazy bad work rules. We'd need to look at major level carriers that have similar restrictions and see how they are deployed there instead.
Even the way NW did them (burying them in a 5-day trip.. OUCH!) isn't relative to how they would be implemented here.