Originally Posted by
Omar 111
What?
Six hours a day just means you fill up in 2 fewer days/month; no reduction in pilot requirements. Probably would increase the reserves required for narrowbody guys as more trips would push the limits on 117 rules.
I do agree with the fact commutable trips would mostly disappear, especially for us narrowbody guys.
Omar
As others have pointed out, it depends on how much of that 6 hours per day is credit vs. hard time. Nobody likes sitting around the pilot lounge for 3 hours waiting on their next flight, but that type of a trip creates more credit. More credit = more pilots required.
If every domestic flew 6hours block time every day...and the company was able to eliminate all that sitting around/credit time, well, they'd need fewer pilots.
Luckily, they haven't figured out how to do it yet.