Originally Posted by
Easyflier301
This right here. Also, DAL’s pairing construction limits (worse than what we have proposed). AA said we could have 10 hour max scheduled FDP, but then that would force them to just create longer trips, something the majority here don’t want. It’s not clear that DAL and UAL won’t do exactly that when their 10 hour FDP provisions get fully implemented.
O, I see. I thought the split duty addition was going to cut down on longer trips? What about our "industry leading(no, Alaska)" pairing construction?
With split duty and pairing construction aren't we protected from longer trips? If yes how would the 10 hour rig create longer trips?
At some point all these provisions need to fight against each other. The optimizer isn't some warlock that is going to create something out of nothing. It's a computer. We need to add rules that benefit the group and force the optimizer to figure it out. Do we have industry leading pairing construction rules or not? Is split duty actually a gain for this group or is mgmt promising something they will never deliver? That thing being less 4 and 5 day non-productive trips with 30 hour overnights.