Originally Posted by
FlyyGuyy
If we had the 10 hr+ rig that Delta has my last 4 day would have paid 25 hours. Not 22. I'll happily take the extra $1000+. But APA knows best and we're all just idiots. I'm on reserve so maybe it wouldn't help me, but it would help the 1000s of line holders.
We used to have three-day trips that had late dept on first day and red-eye back to base. Paid 10:30 IIRC. Junior folks ended up doing 2x a week for 5 days on every week. When calendar day popped up everyone thought they'd go senior and pay 15:45 each or 31:30 for the double up.
Guess what happened? They disappeared and got embedded into trips afterwards.
Same will happen to 10 hour days, you'll just end up working more days on. Everyone thinks they can outsmart the company, typical pilot mentality "I know everything". No, you don't know what you don't know. So yes, in this case you are the idiot.
I guess as a plus reserve will go senior and all the juniors can have the crappy lines lol. So, win?