And that's how they get ya. Trip averaging, rig averaging, whatever. This language needs to be collectively abolished from our working agreements because, on paper, they look good. Until you realize the company builds pairing to "marginalize" the rigs and you only "see" the "true" average of 5 hours per day.

The intent of a trip rig, duty rig, and or min day rig is to compensate the pilot for his time away from home and family and to get paid while we are at work (we are paid by the "hour") and to penalize the company for unproductive pairings.

Many rigs are canceled out with "averaging" language. We must rid our contracts of this language. Here and now.