Originally Posted by sailingfun

We asked the company for a 5:15 daily minimum. The company spent several weeks costing that out. They had to run mock bids for every month of the year after changing every rotation to try and see what the true costs would be. The cost was high. Some pilots who had flown CDO's wanted them back. If you can offer something the pilots want and the company finds attractive it can be used as a offset. It was a very small offset to the total costs.