Originally Posted by
stinsonjr
Does UPS have disputed pairings? The FedEx guys are always up in arms about them, but UPS guys do not seem to be. Does UPS have no horrible trip pairs, or do the UPS pilots just not complain about them? Does UPS have anything like disputed pairings that irritates the group as a whole? Just wondering - thank you.
As explained, no DP's, but we do have a similiar species that I suspect are of the same foul parental lineage that we have at Brown;
Called a "Base Trip Line" and these fatigue inducing buggers generally go very junior.
Base Trip Lines can be up to 20% of our flying lines constructed in each fleet/seat. They are clock switchers day to night, short layovers, etc. that are desired by our collective companies to make us more effective and productive. It is a concession to make the majority of our constructed flying lines safer and more quality. It is a trade that was negotiated by both groups.
That being said, we don't begrudge the crew for selecting one of these lines since it isn't disputed, just another "living the dream" line <g> [one nightmare at a time] experience.
