Originally Posted by
fly20201
I doubt 95% will be improved once the pairing optimizer adjusts to the new rigs. I'm sure it will find a way to minimize that soft time. Also, where are you getting your 95% figure? Seems quite high.
I based it off our current trips, just a guesstimate based on how most of our 4 days are worth 18hrs. I can’t say how it’ll be with the PBS. Unlikely that it could be worse than now. The company is not gonna get much use out of creating 63hrs TAFB 4 day trips. A big benefit of PBS is reduced manning. If all the 4 day trips went to less than 63hrs TAFB than you’re not really getting a whole lot of flying out of each pilot, kind of defeats the purpose of PBS.