Originally Posted by Spicy McHaggis

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.