Originally Posted by
gzsg
My only point is we are averaging at least 90 hours per month.
I'm old and senior. For you younger pilots I want you to understand that a hard 75 hours max would generate over 1000 captains and move you up huge in your category. This ability to white slip all your vacation back costs jobs.
Personally I think our hourly rates should be 50% higher and we should have a hard 75 hour cap. We work way too many days.
While I'm on a roll, our trip construction at 5:15 a day is pathetic. We need a 3 for 1 trip rig. Managment creates worthless trip because they can. A three day trip should be worth 18 hours minimum.
Management should want us to be more productive and that means upgrading their 1960s software and increasing daily trip value.
A 6 hour min day would fix the problem as well.
Again, I don't disagree with what you are saying that we work more than we use to, I just don't think accruing more credit than block time is a bad thing. If the contract allowed you to credit 150 hours while only flying 50 hours of block, do you think that is necessarily bad?
I want more soft time for less work. Frankly, pay should be more duty time and trip time focused. We should have better trip rigs across the whole industry. 3:1 should be the standard, but just look at what the regional guys have to put up with 4:1 is if they are lucky.