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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?
I made this exact point later in the post. We allegedly have industry best trip construction limitations and were told during negotiations/road shows that the company was pretty much already operating on the razor's edge of those limitations. APA said we weren't necessarily going to gain much but it will protect from later abuse.
If they are already operating right at the limitations how are they just going to add more days? They can't................Right?
If they can't add more days the optimizer will be fighting with itself between ACD and >10. This is what we want. That all relies on the fact that APA wasn't blowing smoke up our ### during section 6.