Originally Posted by
172skychicken
They are squeezing to eliminate credit based off of our CURRENT rigs and ADG. Better rigs and a 6 hour min day would just make them squeeze harder. The idea that they are already squeezing as hard as they can is total bunk. Things can absolutely get worse. This will backfire on us big time if the proper controls are not in place to keep them from doing it.
Not saying you’re wrong, but you seem to be against better rigs because they might nuke our already horrendous rotations. By your logic the inverse would be true no? Eliminate rigs and we’d get better trips. While that’s probably true, I don’t see you or anyone else arguing for getting rid of our current ADG for example. Are we truly at the Goldilocks of rigs? Just right? I’d say no.
I’ll add that international trips definitely can get worse with a min day so you’re right about that in that context. However I truly think domestic trips can’t fall much farther given FAA and PWA restraints.