Originally Posted by
scambo1
The MEC directed the NC to negotiate for SDPs in order to bring down the ratio of days worked vs hours flown.
Anyone who espouses anything different, IMO, is trying to cloud the issue. The 2010 resolution is irrelevant. Again IMO.
That's pretty much what I was assuming when they came out. Increase productivity. They do, and if it wasn't for the safety issues with the longer ones and under IROPS, the pilot group would have likely welcomed them. I think just a few too many of us flew them in previous lives and were pretty familiar with the potential downside, and that caught the MEC a bit surprised.