Originally Posted by
Flightcap
Except you’re limited to dropping to 60/70 hours. That’s huge. My February schedule currently has less than 30 hours on it, and unless they offer a premium trip it’s going to stay that way.
A lot of pilots are at Spirit because they don’t want to have to work a full schedule every month. You can run a business and fly part-time - I know of several pilots who do. You can work a 200% premium pay trip that knocks your days off down by 4 in one month and translate that to 8 days off next month for same net pay. That’s what I do. Shoot, when you get to your target retirement age you can drop every trip until you turn 65. There’s nothing that says we have to come in to work a certain amount.
That is nice. At first glance after it was explained it’s better than what we have not being tied to the res grid imo. We are tied to two numbers, opentime pot and a generic number based on domicile size. Opentime has to be less than generic. Usually not a problem but with tight staffing could be. Our deal also creates problems in flica manipulating a schedule due to the 50 hr fence. Because there’s no language that says I can’t drop below 50 just have to finish 60/70 yet flica prevents this. We can also be awarded 60 hr lines that pay guarantee. The problem becomes you can’t drop a 4 day out of the gate until your trued up on the 15 credit with the fence.