Originally Posted by
full of luv
There is no doubt a change will be a "concession".
But what if the company tells negotiators that this is worth 2% in rates across the board due to productivity gains and slightly reduced manning. Do we leave 2% for everyone behind or say yes to this "concession". Everything has a price.
If the company really wanted CDO's for pilots, they could have CDO pay to double CDO trips.... guess what they'd go so senior a junior pilot would never see one. Then to undue that in a contract would be a concession.
CDOs should pay 15.45. One day you do them, so that's 5.15. But then you just took what was a two day and made it one, so we need to be paid for two, so 10.30. Then you need another duty period to recover, 15.45.
Interesting thing to note is I was in GRR on a foggy morning not to long ago. You could look up and see blue skies. You look forward and see 200' in one direction, look in the other, 20'. So the first flight out had a FA crew on a lean over. They eventually timed out and they cancelled a flight around 8 or 9am because of a flight crew duty day.
That just doesn't seem wise.