Originally Posted by
Planetrain
Ive never seen EDP worth more than about 2h45m/day. Are these 12 hour days in the bid packet or are they broken up trips with a monster deadhead?
Also, EDP and SIT is kinda new. It’s my understanding it’s paid on the last day, so you have to drop the entire trip with PBs to get it, right? First day method doesn’t work (unless it’s a 1-day).
From my post #14:
Originally Posted by
tennisguru
Just to clarify, soft credit on a multi-day rotation is only paid if you use enough PB days to cover every day of the trip (specifically, it must cover the last day when soft credit is paid out). So a 1 day trip obviously pays all soft credit on the PB day. But on the 717 there are high block first days of multi day trips that pay 8+ not counting any soft credit. Maybe not every single bid period, but they do come up.
I don't peruse the bid packets on other fleets, but they do have high block day turns, some of which I'm sure have EDP. 12 may not be possible, but 11-ish certainly should be. Of course you have to have the seniority to hold it or work with a super senior pilot who will help you out. Broken trips day trips are the best, but they are hard to find since they rarely pop up more than 2 days out where you'd actually be able to use PB days for a few PCS runs. Probably some charter operations get built a bit in advance or mabye some other network stuff. For a while the 717 was covering 220 flying out of BOS and they build some really high paying 1- and 2- day trips many days out. Just in the bid packet the 717 should be close to 8/day. Other NB should easily hit close to 9, higher on day trips with EDP.