Originally Posted by
nwa757
Delta does 6-8 day trips on their 777/747s. Some trips as long as 12 days straight.
A DTW 777 6 day pairing pays 31.5 hours based on ~5:10 min calendar day. The 6 day trip has 4 duty periods.
The same pairing under the proposed crap AA TA would pay only 20.6 hours at 5:10 x 4 duty periods.
Pure crap.
For example, the US east contract has a limit on trips being 4 days long at max.
Concessions, concessions.
That's false.
I didn't see us giving up the 1:3.5 trip rig as one of the concessions, so worst case, a 6 day trip starting at 2000 and ending at 0600 (106 hours/3.5) would pay just over 30 hours. A trip starting at noon and ending at noon (120 hours/3.5) would pay just over 34 hours. Of course this all assumes your block time is lower than the rig.