Originally Posted by
MEMA300
With SIBA you lose alot of potential days of work because your never off the clock in domicile. With STV they can get you back to HKG and give you a 24 hour layover that doesnt count as a day of work. STV allows the company to get alot more work out of you than SIBA (trip rig and min days off come in to play with SIBA) Both of those are negated with STV. The company is not worried about dead head tickets, they are worried about those 70 and 50 hour layovers during a SIBA line where your getting paid trip rig and losing a day of work.
With SIBA you don't lose a day of work you gain a day of pay. You bump into the Max Pay limit mainly due to the DHs and partially due to trip rig. My point is we can't really evaluate what we are giving up until we see the lines. Apparently no one at ALPA wants to know; as no one wants to see the lines.
To do a one month HK STV you would lose at least 36 hours due to DH time (assuming we get paid). Don't we want to know how they will use the remaining hours over the next 23 days?