Originally Posted by
NuGuy
Heyas FtB:
The NWA system was a bit more complicated than 1.5x > 80. There was also a "premium trip" portion that was basically identical to the green slip system. They were basically short notice trips, and paid 1.5x regardless, or if you were already over 80, they paid 2.25x (or the portion over 80).
Now if OT over 80 would make people stampede to the WSs, you're probably right. What people forget about the NWA system was that there were a fairly complex set of caps that went along with it.
Unless you had a high negative bank, or training (which you could take for pay, no credit, full credit and anything in-between at the time of bidding), it was pretty difficult to get more than 5 hours past the "monthly max", which usually floated around 85 hours.
My guess (and it's only a guess) is if you tried to implement a cap system here, people would lose their minds. Even if you jacked the pay rates up to where they were in 2004, plus inflation, people would still complain about a cap.
Nu
Hey Nu, you are quoting the immediate post bankruptcy rules on that not the post Summer of BOB rules where it went back to the ANYTHING over 80 at 1.5, and some things on the matrix you describe were 2.25. but the high time authorization was not so stingy after the side letter resulting from the Summer of BOB. and remember from 1996 until the CH 11 it was just ANYTHING over 80 at 1.5