Originally Posted by Sink r8

OK, but in this case we were talking about the non-commutable trips, and how they're a natural by-product of asking for a higher ADG. Asking for a higher ADG is the opposite of an efficiency concession. Our gain of the ADG 5:15 is what we always stated we wanted: to be paid more for each day worked. We got it. The catch is that we're actually expected to work on those days.

This isn't a case of giving up efficiency to get payrates, it's a case of failing to acknowledge the QOL trade-offs made in an efficiency gain. It's a very simple issue, really: if we want to pack more flying into each day of flying, each day of flying is contain more flying, including the first and last days of a trip. If we want short days at either end of the trip, then we're going to have to fly more trips, or work longer trips.