Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
Why do people assume the company doesn’t try and maximize the contract to their advantage just as pilots do? And what changes do they suggest to work around the optimizer? Set the overnight to 22 hours for an extra day, and you’ll see 21:59 overnights. Trigger min day pay at midnight, you’ll see trips end at 23:59. People can crap on trip rigs but it’s the one constant to help counter an optimizer
Min day is great but don’t be ****ed when it optimizes you to a 5am show day 1 and a 23:59 duty off on day 3 for 15 hours for 3 days pay, vs close to 20 with duty rigs.
Keep increasing duty rigs is the equalizer to the optimizer
You can do min calendar day with duty rigs. Regionals do it. You can also do red eye overrides , which JetBlue does, and you can do leg by leg block or better, instead of our stupid trip average. Our contract is full of Swiss cheese.