Originally Posted by
sailingfun
We used to have far fewer 30 hour layovers. They are a direct result of asking and getting longer break times and minimum behind the door time. How would you suggest the company handle layover cities where they need 30 hour layovers for the early departures?
As an aside anytime you make changes to work rules there are unintended consequences. If for example we get a 5:15 daily minimum in the next contract commutable trips will become very rare on domestic rotations.
I don't have a supercomputer at my disposal to optimize such a scenario, but I was recently rerouted into somebody else's 30 hour layover and the company just DH'd us out as soon as we had our legal rest and we continued on our merry way, likely the other crew DH'd in to resume their layover but I don't know for certain.
There's probably an intelligent way to change this, but the company isn't incentivized to try since the current way works with the 5:15 ADG. I'm not sure how a min day vs. min ADG would affect commutability, but if we were able to change a portion of the bid package, see how pilots like them and adjust from there it would be better than current. Heck, look at the categories where they have 1 day trips that are 7-8 hours and they are the 1st trips gone, 73n is an excellent example. Pilots generally prefer to work fewer days for identical pay, it's not a radical concept.