Originally Posted by AUpilot1

Its a terrible thing.... the whole ACD was used as a straw man. Yes, you are correct, there will not be anymore 10hr slash trips which by the way are less than 10% of our trips. What did we give up? Higher per day productivity for everyone else plus up to 20% 5 day trips in each base. What you don’t realize is that the trip make up will change dramatically. Every trip will average as close to 5:15 per day as possible. That means EVERYONE will
have 14 days off. That includes the senior guys! Don’t think you will be seeing those 8hr day trips anymore. They will be embedded in 5 day trips. You hate 4-5 day trips? Too bad.... they will now make up 80% of the bid pack. Talk to your United and Delta buddies about what happened with their trips once they implemented ACD. They will tell you that they went to 80% 4 day trips. This is what you would call unintended consequences. Just because Delta and United have something, doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily a good thing.

If you take a look at who is flying the vast majority of these red-eye/slash trips, they are reserves. Most (not everyone) trades out of their slash trips and they end up going to reserves. Reserves don’t care about ACD since they don’t break guarantee anyway plus they get an easy trip with a long layover that eats up days of availability. I will agree with you that there is a very small percentage of pilots here that this would help. Those doing Hawaii on the 757 out of PHX and those doing some of the South America layovers our of MIA. But that probably only accounts for 1-2% of our flying. With ACD, everyone (junior and senior) will be made to fly longer trips, and those senior will have less days off. That doesn’t sound like a great deal to me.