Originally Posted by
BobSacamano
Go ahead and try telling your neighbor, or better yet the NMB, all about how having to drive to work on half of the days in a given month is “excessive.“
When I last had a line it was all night turns. I left home about 8pm and came back home some time between 7-10am depending on delays. for that I got somewhere between 5.5 to 6 hrs credit. because each trip covers two days they could only give me 12, but to get the credit into the window of 67 some hours while retaining minimum 12 days off. NavBlue had to stack them some of them 3 days in a row.
My Neighbor runs a small business refurbishing copiers in his basement, No he does not seem particularly envious of my schedule nor does he assume I could be gone for so long to earn 5.5 credit hrs I have a hard time believing it myself.
None of this is the NMB's concern there job is not to judge what's fair but to bring the parties to an agreement. If the agreement is one sided or even they don't care.
IDK why I am should need to explain this to you everyone who works here has by now figured out how much of our free time gets wasted by 5 hr turns the math is simple
(transit time to work)+(Parking lot to gate)+(duty on 1 hr prior to departure)+(1st Leg)+(ground time 1hr+)+(2nd leg) + (Deplaning 25min)+(gate to parking lot)+(transit time home)
When I do the math it's a minimum 11hr day. Large airports like the ones F9 has bases in are second only to public schools as time sinks. I would also add that it is uncommon for people who work 10-14 hr days to work 5 days a week Beyond 16 hrs of work in a back to back schedule it is impossible to have 8 hrs of sleep.