Originally Posted by
1900luxuryliner
From what I understand, it's 4 days off between "work blocks", not "trips". So, you may have a 4 day trip, backed up to a 2 day trip (or any conceivable combination of trips), to complete your "work block". Seems like that would encourage the company to fill up six full days of flying with any crazy combination of trips, just to maximize your "work block" efficiency. I could be very wrong. Maybe a Spirit guy can chime in how this work rule plays out in practice, with regards to actual schedule creation.
This +1,000,000,000,0000%. Mandatory 4 days off in between BLOCKS (not pairings), which is what Spirit has, BLOWS! Does back to back 3 days sound good, or a 4 day followed by a 2 day, or a 4 day followed by 2 day trips. Do you like having inconsistent days off, I.e roll from Fri-Mon OFF to start month, and end with Mon-Thur OFF? Because this is what happens at Spirit on a LOT of lines, solely because of mandatory 4 days off between BLOCKS! I have friends at Spirit and have seen their bid packets, so I'm not pulling this out of my a** I would be LIVID if we implemented this!!! It's straight garbage!
If you want 4 days OFF between pairings, that's easy to accomplish at F9 already via swap, drop, add, ect.......be careful what u wish for!