Originally Posted by
Slick111
Has this really been a problem? I quit looking at open time last fall because there's literally nothing in there that worth picking up!
How hard up do you have to be to pick up a 4-day trip, (on your days off) that pays 8:16 (an avg. of 2:04 per day)? Yes, that's an actual trip in CLT open time right now. Or perhaps you need the extra pay from those 2-day trips, some of which pay less than 3 hours,...... TOTAL.
Exactly, thats by design. The company builds these trips intentionally so that with the carve outs it is still worth less than min day. They don't want pilots to pick up open time, it is actually cheaper for them to use a reserve, and if they have to junior man a trip it still only cost 30min more that it would have for a line holder.
Thats why we need the pilots that are able to SAP down to 75. There needs to be more open time than there are reserves in order to make critical pay cheaper than the slight possibility of junior manning.