Originally Posted by
thefoxsays
Law of unintended consequences
Originally Posted by
PilotFrog
This trend to more and more 5 days as highlighted in the scheduling alert sucks. No matter how you slice it, we are paying for that 5:15 guarantee.
It also mentions the 2 other major reasons that we are seeing more of the longer trips:
1. We are no longer fat staffed
2. Mainline block hours are way up YOY but staffing increases haven't kept up
If they want to fly the projected schedule the only option is to squeeze more out of the pilots that are currently here.
I still hate 5 day trips, and prefer to not do 4 days either, but to blame the entire thing on 5:15 ADG doesn't tell the whole story. I'd still like to see it go to 5:45 or 6:00 ADG in C2015. If that results in more 4/5 day trips domestically then so be it - at least they'd be worth more.