Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
correct me if I’m wrong, my line of thinking may be off but won’t a lower rig potentially increase legs per day? If more trips are rigged they would start to add more flying per day to increase pilot utilization.
definitely for a better rig to increase trip payouts. Just not sure how that would change scheduling.
They will already be doing that, to try and defeat the 5 hour average daily guarantee. Those 10-11 hour three days will start to pay 15, and the 17-18 hour four days will pay 20. Because of that, they will add flying to the beginning, or end, or both. Or just restructure the trip. And they will do that making trips start earlier and end later, and they will still just pay ~5 hours per day.
If you also tighten up the TAFB rig, then making trips start early and end late will add even MORE credit to the trip. Will it also add more flying? Probably not a big difference, as management under just the ADG scenario will already be adding more flying, when they can. So I think a 1 to 3 TAFB rig will add more pay than flying, and the company will have to balance out payroll vs making trips more gentlemanly.
I think it could be a significant pay/QOL driver. They will build some trips that pay more, and some trips that start later and end earlier to try and save money on the new TAFB rig.
My initial thought on the subject.