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Old 11-03-2019 | 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot
Now I don’t know but it would seem to me that the company would be able to push the credit window higher with the same amount or less pilots than with the 4 day off requirement in place for everyone. We’re are currently setting historical credit window standards for future years and if we have a lot of pilots waiving we are able to inflate the credit window that wouldn’t be achievable without waiving. This is why the 4 days off was important under line bidding. Since we have low min days off at 13 it kept the company from building every line at 13 days off. The solution wasn’t possible. It had to build a bunch with more than 13 days off. That created a need for higher staffing or more premium pay. I can only imagine that making the ability to waive permanent with trigger the company to use the data they already have on waiving to push the window higher and lower staffing.
This has more to do with pairing construction, monthly pairing frequency, and rig than with consecutive days off.

Pilots doing this aren’t waiving total number number of days off, rather increasing the the opportunities for PBS to award pairings.

I would want to see some concrete data that shows the flexibility that waiving provides is consistently detrimental to lifestyle before giving it up.
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