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Old 06-28-2014 | 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Alan Shore
Not according to the contract:

“Block time” means the time beginning when an aircraft first moves for the purpose of
flight or repositioning and ending when the aircraft comes to a stop at the next destination or at the point of departure.


Note the absence of the qualifier of movement "under its own power."
That may be the current book, and I'm glad it is. But we still need to watch this issue like a hawk. Eventually this will be costed out and we will be bribed with the value of our own jobs. Even if we don't initiate it, others will and that will put more pressure on us to do so. Any attempt by anyone needs to go straight to DC, the press and the Colgan victims with an agressive lobbying attempt to stop it.