Originally Posted by
Flyby1206
Yes, depart east coast late afternoon for a westbound transcon, 24hrs off, redeye back east landing around 8am. 2 duty periods, ~12hrs block, 15hrs pay credit due to average daily guarantee.
that being said, the company has built all those types of trips into 4day pairings where you now do a super high credit day turn on day 1, layover in base, then the 3day described above days 2-4. Block about 20hrs and rig is 20hrs as well, so removes the soft time.
Pairing building takes work rules into account. A lot of NK guys want calendar day, because "those LAS-EWR-LAS 2 leg 3 day trips with a 23 hour layover would pay 15 hours". No, they would not exist, but be buried into a 4 day. Obviously your optimizer works the same. I want great rigs and rates. Trying to get more pay for not working means we will be working harder. Same for 150% for picking up open time. Unless you can force the company to keep open time to a certain percentage it will mean less open time and less schedule flexibility because you can't trade. Always be careful whet you wish for....