Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
That's funny. I find my quality of life vastly improved over the last few years. I will ask you again. Do you want to go to the "good ol' days" of C2K? (work rules that is, I acknowledge that the pay rates were vastly superior).
-- No vacation slide.
-- No bidding for CQ. The company--not you--determined when you went to recurrent.
-- 9 hour layover, reducible to 8. And you are complaining about 10 hours?
-- No Duty Period Average, no Average Daily Guarantee. Starting in November every trip will average 5.15 a day min, both for regular and reserve pilots. This was achieved by an LOA you apparently lament.
Etc.
Our current rates are a 34% reduction in buying power versus 2004 C2K. For a 51% W2 increase (the amount it would take for full restoration), I could live with all that.
10 hours is the minimum layover per FAR 117, so the 9 hour layover, reducible to 8 is no longer legal and is therefore an irrelevant point.
Are you seriously suggesting that you'd prefer your above list over a 51% pay increase?
