Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Well, I posted this a few days ago and nobody said anything. Guess I was too much of a wuss.
Carl
Actually I was thinking of your post and of SWA....
Originally Posted by
Flamer
SWA reserves get 6.5 TFP for a day of reserve now. Sounds good to me for DAL to do the same. You can sit less days or make more for the same days.
Plus, reserve and commuting is a choice.
And I meant to say 6.45 a day not 6.75, same thing but didn't mean it to be.
For a line pilot it'd be the same concept, work less, and while you're at work yes you would probably fly more but we could argue that we want line construction rules to prevent some of that increase in work.
For a reserve it could mean only working 11-12 days a month. Albeit those might be full days but the nature of RES is you are covering for things and not all of those trips can be 8 hour days. So it's a decrease in days and possibly an increase in staffing? maybe?
For a line pilot it would probably be more flying while at work but 15 days worked a month would be a pay increase at 6.75 vs 5.15 ADG. It'd be a 30% increase at the end of the year.
But you could do something like Carl said, ADG first then pay raise.
As for a 747 guy in De-twa' or a 330 guy out of SEA, I don't know how much would really change as far as trying to cram in more flying into a 4-day. but maybe I am wrong.
You still have legal rest requirements to meet (albeit I don't have a clue at what you guys have for rest requirements) but a 24 or 25 hour 4-day to Asia would become a 27 hour 4-day.
I'm just batting this around looking for the issues.