Originally Posted by
MWilliams
The smaller aircraft do better than the large cabin aircraft when it comes to FDP. This information was verified by company and union negotiators. If a phenom were to do 5 flights with a one hour flight time they would credit 6 hours of FDP. (taxi time of .2 plus flight time) A global doing one 5 hour flight would only credit 5.2 FDP.
Before anyone gets excited, I think we should get more for taxi time at the big airports and block or better would be awesome. Let’s debate the facts and not what we think the facts should or shouldn’t be.
I’ll take 5.2 FDP for one single flight over having to do 5 flights for 6 FDP, any day.