Originally Posted by
DontCallMeCindy
Wouldn’t you also end up with way more min rest overnights and horrible, SWA-style pairings where you’re constantly doing exhausting 4 leg days?
Plenty of folks here do not want that—productivity isn’t the only singular reason we come to work. Many of us actually like the chill 24 hour island overnights and miss stacking those easy 13:30 3 days.
I think having 1/3 or 1/3.25 TAFB rig without adding the 6 hour min day would be better, partly for that reason. A financial disincentive to make every trip start early and end late.
I've seen a lot of trips that were not commutable, but could have been if they reordered the flying. Putting the red-eyes at the end of the trip instead of in the middle for example. They used to be mostly at the end (east coast bases) except for the double 13:30s as you say (precombined or pilot combined). Then they started putting the red-eyes in the middle of the trip, making you end late, while still only paying 20 hours, because it wouldn't trigger any more TAFB rig.
Have a stronger TAFB rig and there is a financial disincentive to make trips longer FOR NO REASON.