Originally Posted by
MiLtoMajor123
But it doesn't hurt the company either. You are on your days off. Only way it might hurt the company would be if you were bumping up against your FAR limits. That would only happen if you are breaking 79 hours every month regularly. Or more likely if you worked 7 days in a row (pick up plus a Reserve trip) and were close to getting 60 hours FDP. Either case seems very unlikely.
It only hurts the Union in that pilots are working "more" than they should given that the Union ALWAYS wants more pilots and wanting a daily min guarantee no matter who picks up the trip (aka you get paid 5 hours regardless if you do a 3 hour turn that you grabbed from Pilot to Pilot). Kind of hard to negotiate that if guys are willing to pick those up all the time......which actually helps the company.
The company doesn't want it. You're right it doesn't cost them anything but look how hard the are fighting the union in HIMs; they won't give up anything unless it benefits them in atangible way.
They are very data driven so intagibles like crew qol that can't be measured and collected i.e. "data" doesn't compute and therefore must be bad or it must be something that the pilots will trade for.
If you want to change something here then you need to be creating data. Hotel and fatigue reports etc.... If they can't measure it then it's not happening.