Originally Posted by
sailingfun
What were your work rules at the regional carrier. In particular what type of daily minimum or average did you have and how many days a month was the average line. My son works at a regional that has lots of short legs and flies 4 leg days but not often. Basic lines however are constructed to 18 or 19 days to get in the 70 to 80 hour range.
I dont recall a lot of specifics. I cant find an old contract but were talking about XJT in the early 2000s and the contract was fairly decent. We did have lots of 13-15 day off lines, but that's RJ life. I believe we had a lower min day credit which meant we had a greater mix between unproductive 4 days and high time, ball buster trips. But we also had leg by leg overs and once credit/overs were earned, they were never "given back". Also much more flexible and transparent scheduling software. Line bidding was a blessing and a curse and meant that sometimes a line that worked for days off you wanted might have some crap trips, but it was what it was. Trading and swapping were pretty common so you could usually massage something decent out of each month.