Originally Posted by
highfarfast
My point was that I've heard it said by people "it's a 30 day bid month" as though it's abnormal and thus explains whatever problem someone is complaining about. Heard it from pilots, from company, from union. But just more than half of our months are 30 day bid months. It's the norm, not the aberration.
I think it works out to seven 30 day months and five 31 day months (except leap year with six and six) but it does tend to affect the averages.
Specifically, if the average is four hours per day, a thirty one day month will average 4 extra hours or one extra day off.