Originally Posted by
bugman61
There is a narrow scenario in which the new rules pay less. A single day reroute that does not trigger the 4 hour late reroute under the new language will generate one half pay no credit. If that reroute would have triggered L.4. Note pay under the old language, it would have been single pay no credit.
Over the whole pilot group the new language will pay far more often, but it is possible to have it pay less in a very specific scenario.
I'm not sure the old rules would even pay under this scenario. To even qualify as a legal reroute under the old L4 note, the leg in question (or at least the first one) should have been unable to built into a rotation that a) puts the pilot into position and b) has at least a 14 hour report time. Any legs of the reroute that couldn't be so built were a legal reroute, but got zero reroute pay, any legs that could be built into a rotation, but were "attached" to the previous rerouted legs were still a legal reroute under L4, but got the reroute pay. It would come down as to when the first leg(s) became open. In a same day reroute scenario, lets say you departed, and they changed a middle turn and put you back on your rotation, none of the rerouted legs would pay any reroute pay because they couldn't build any of it into a rotation meeting the above parameters. Under the new rules, they would.
This scenario is really, really tough to do in a single day reroute, and considering you weren't getting any reroute pay for the first leg(s). Even if you could tease out a fringe case, it's probably a wash considering usually the first legs of a L4 Note reroute don't get reroute pay but under the new rules everything gets 50% pay for the first day.