Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
Pbs will improve efficiency as well as the optimizer building up to the new rigs. Crew scheduling is getting more creative with covering trips than in the past. A 4 day used to have coverage or it didn’t. Now they know how to use 4 different guys from 4 bases with single day availability to get that trip covered. What very few premium trips come through will have no deals and you shouldn’t be trying to make them. They are assigned in accordance to the CBA or NCCs will be filed.
Ah thanks for reminding me...I meant to talk about pbs as well. I just question how more efficient trips are going to get anyways. All that’s really changing is flight time is going from 8 to 9 hours. I can think of many pairings already where there is a bunch of one leggers and long layers already where they could of easily added another leg that day. (not complaing at all). The company is already wanting to get the most out us as they contractually can, I feel going to 9 hour days isn’t going change much. They use the best optimization software out there already. Idk I could be wrong.
Also how much more efficient is the company going to be with pilots per plane if a lot of pilots decide to keep their 4 days off? I don’t think it’s going to be that more efficient. But time will tell. It will be quite interesting if the company is wrong.