404yxl,

The company will always adjust pairing construction to limit their costs...they will never make them "pilot friendly" as long as it adds one more red cent to their costs. To look how the ADTG would have benefited the pilot group the last 6 months is apples to oranges. The company would have modified the pairing construction to limit their costs.

There still is an outstanding grievance going through arbitration. The ruling should be coming out soon regarding only receiving min day for a duty period. ( 5 day trip, only 4 duty periods, only 4 days pay) If the arbitrator rules in our favor, the pairing construction will have to become more efficient thus creating better pairings for the pilot group. I personally believe the ADTG program was just a shor term carrot and stick the company wanted to dangle in front of the pilot group to sign up for and lock in savings. Ya I agree it was nice for a decent amount of the pilot group, but if the arbitrator rules in our favor on this issue the entire pilot groups pairings will dramatically become more efficient, thus making our regional airline lives a bit easier to bare.

hope I didn't come off in a negative way, just my opinion that's all

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