Originally Posted by
detpilot
First, don't get me wrong... I'm grateful and blessed to be working at my dream airline.
But there is one thing that's bugged me, which seems like a major contractual deficit, a problem that didn't even exist at my regional airline.
If there is a 2 day trip, with 1 hour of pay on day 1, and 10 hours of pay on day 2, the trip pays 11 hours. Isn't day 1 supposed to be worth 5 hours at a minimum, regardless of how hard you work the next day?
At my regional, this trip would pay 15 hours. I've noticed a lot of cases like this in the airbus, and I'm just wondering if that's how the contract has always been written. Seems like we're leaving a lot on the table there, and just because I work hard on day 2 doesn't mean my day 1 isn't worth 5 hours of pay.
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While it would be great, what you're really asking for is to have it both ways. The whole point of this contract language wasn't to score you 5 hours for a 2 hour day, but rather to make sure you don't do a 9 hr 3-day trip.
Bumping min day to 6+ would be a better solution because we have a lot of 20hr 4 days on the narrow body stuff.