Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
Dang....I just did a 5-day that paid 26 hours. We never see domestic 5-days worth more than about 30. Most of ours pay 26-28. 4-days are almost all 21 hours. I would love flying a domestic 5 day worth 35 hours......just not 2 of them back to back.
I ususally fly 3 5 days a month for about 75-80 hours. Sometimes I'll pick up a 2 day to get a little more. Doing 2 5-days a month plus a 2 day for the same 80 hours would be awesome. I'd probably just complain that there were too many legs and too short of layovers though so maybe not.
Yeah, you'd be amazed at how they can make trips productive if they really need to. I thought 30/7 going away would suck, but in my mind I think I always was more tired due to a lot of flight duty hours in 7 and not really the block. The really lucky pilots snagged some of the 38 hour 5 day trips we had and got their 75 hours in just 2 work blocks totaling 10 days. Really great for the commuter. We did have one pilot fly 6 MSP-YVR daytrips in a row for 42 hours of pay and 58 hours of flight duty. I bet he was tired after that, but he didn't need to work a lot for the rest of the month.
And don't think I disagree with you that a pilot should get at least a day off at home every 7 if they want. I think it sucks that it is not in the contract. If I had a preference, it would be that no pilot would be forced into anything longer than 4 days of work in a row and that they would also be given at least 2 days off every 7 if they wanted.