Originally Posted by
Sunvox
This is a bit of kettle meeting pot as I have never shied away from a little braggadocio when I thought it was acceptable, BUT there is another side to the high W2. Working "hard" i.e. over 75 hours reduces the number of pilots the company needs. When I started in '96 schedules over 80 hours were rare in fact anything over 85 hours went into the "bank" and didn't get paid until the following month. We need to be careful about how "hard" we work because WHAT IF that data was used to increase the required hours. That, to me, would be a HUGE loss in QoWL.
I don't know his answer, which is why I posted right above this one, but there is definitely a difference between working hard vs "smart". Soft time from trips dropped due to conflict, VDO, etc doesn't mean a pilot is necessarily flying 95hrs a month. On reserve on the 777 I could fly two trips, 60hrs, and because of the VDO system and short calls I could have 105-107hrs of pay for 8 days of flying.
Or should we all be limited to 80hrs? If 80hrs provides X number of jobs, why not make it 70 or even 60hrs of pay as a cap?
I post this with the caveat that no one is on furlough or there are pending furloughs.