Originally Posted by
mtnlife89
I'm surprised more people haven't pushed for increasing average daily value (or even more preferably minimum daily value) to 5.5-6 hrs/day. Trips become more efficient (especially for narrow-body fleets) and overall compensation increases even if we don't see a dime more in rates than DAL. During shoulder season months, we should see more days off by achieving a higher credit value with less days of actual work and during the busy summer and holiday months, at the very least we see a decent increase in pay for working our tails off. Is this just not something we want to waste negotiating capital on for some reason???
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Surely a good idea in theory, particularly on the 757 fleet. The trips would be exactly the same, just with the higher credit and therefore more time off. On the NB fleets, I guess it depends on what you prefer, lower credit trips that are easier, or ball-buster trips planned to max-duty and frequent reassignments, but more “efficient”/more time off. For me personally, I’d like to see what that would look like in practice before I’d vote for it.