Originally Posted by
joepilot50
I had a 3 day last month that would have paid 21 hours with the midnight release pay, but 19 hours of hard time. An AF on a previous trip brought me over VMAX so I lost out on that 2 hours, but 19 hours for a 2 day isn't bad at all( scheduling needed to obviously mod my trip to bring me below VMAX). Heck that AF trip ended up being 21 hours as a 3 day not including the AF pay.
I am on a 22.23 4 day now and a 25 hour 4 day after this one.
Do I still get ACD trips? Sure, but I have had good success in either PBS awarding me a high time 2, 3, or 4 day trip or getting them through TTS. And I am bidding 75% in my bid status. I don't even bid for high time as I mostly bid for overnights that I want to do, but they happen to coincide with high time trips.
But I am on 737. Anecdotally the loudest people complaining about ACD trips and long days, etc etc are on the Bus side of the house, DFW 320 to be the loudest about sucky trip construction.
The PBS bid pack every month has the "daily average credit" for every bid status. Most NB statuses are usually between 5:20-5:30. For October there were 3 NB seats with a 5:15 DACV(all 3 737). So yes there are high time trips but on average we aren't doing much better than min ACD.