Originally Posted by ManFlex

I will say this: our pairings and lines are poor and a detriment to our quality of life as much as four days off and transition protection are positives to it. Trip averaging is a major reason why the company prefers to build as many four day trips as possible: they can offset lots of unproductive days with a balance of productive days. That is harder to achieve if they produced more one and two day trips. I'd argue that any alteration to transition language cannot be offset without gains in other QOL provisions. First among those should be the elimination of trip averaging. Second should be an increase to the min duty period pay of AT LEAST 5:30. Don't let Bendo convince you that work rules should be 'monetized' into pay rates. We will end up on the losing end of that deal. Mark my words.