Originally Posted by
CBreezy
It's important to remember that, first, the min day was only 4:15 and that matters. And second, TSA only had a handful of over 2 hour segments. When your fleet has an equal mix of 1-2 hour segments and 4-6 hour segments, CARMIN has a lot more flexibility to squeeze out credit.
This isn’t directed at you, CBreezy, but have we (DALPA) ever entertained the idea of a slight percent bump in pay for the longer FDP’s or block days? I agree that increasing MinDay is just going to make our trips worse and less commutable and I’m a commuter so that matters to me, but I also agree that having a day with 8:30+ block that averages out with a 4 hour day on a 4 day and ends up only paying 21 hours blows.
What if we had language that any FDP, longer than say 10 hours paid 120% for every hour after hour 7 for example, and/or any duty period with more than 6:30 block, paid 120% for every hour after hour 5.5 or something. Nothing too punitive or punishing to the company where they avoid building trips with an occasional long or hard day, (I like productive trips too) but something with a little reward for those SAN-DTW-PHX 8:28 block days where you can barely see straight when you get to the hotel.
Maybe something along those lines could reward us for the long days, while not causing undue changes to Carmen’s rotation construction criteria. I’m sure there are ways this could bite us too, I’m just trying to think of some soft pay strategies that might not hurt across the board like a straight min day increase.
Thoughts?