Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
As someone who lived in base(when we had a base) and only being 20 min from house to parking lot...... I preferred 4-5 day trips. There are no right nor wrong answers. The company builds the most economical trips for BES( as I would expect them to do). Anything else(RCC teeth) will have a cost to "our" side.
Rail all you want, but facts are facts.
JMHO
Seems like a bunch of 2Lt's complaining about why they aren't generals because they can fix everything
Oh no, he didn’t include your specific situation as an example in his post despite advocating for the longer trips you want… terrible of him.
The point was the pilots are, and have been, requesting a mix of trip lengths, and the company has mostly ignored it. 4+ day trips that many pilots don’t want get left in open time and then chopped up to be flown by multiple reserves/GS completely erasing the pre month credit savings the company is trying to achieve. If there were less long trips and more shorter there would be less chance of 4 days of flying being covered by 5+ days worth of pilots. How would that affect our ability to staff the airline?
As far as the cost of the change, duh. It’s a negotiation, most everything we are requesting is an increased cost. We aren’t looking for a cost neutral contract.