Originally Posted by
symbian simian
You don't have trip rigs? You can call it a 3 day all day, but it is less than 35 hours TAFB. So if it started Monday morning at 6am and ended Tuesday at 5pm it would be fine if it paid 10 hours? Even if you now have to commute in day before and pay for the hotel? You have a trip that is commutable on both ends. If you get calendar day, you will work calendar day. No more 11pm start, 10am finish, they are paying for the whole day, they will use you the whole day. Say goodbye to being able to commute on both ends. If it is the red eyes you don't want, get a better override. If you don't make enough money get a higher rate. Asking for calendar day and thinking the trips will stay the same? Priceless. Stop looking at the calendar, and look at TAFB. This a 24/7 job, not 9/5.
You are literally saying that starting work 1 minute after midnight should pay the same as starting work 23 hours and 58 minutes later at 1 minute before the next midnight. Think about that.
I think you should preface this with the fact that you are now at an airline that does in fact have a calendar day min. The other fact is not everyone commutes, and while TAFB is nuanced when compared to calendar day, the majority of the industry has a calendar day min AND a TAFB rig.
Will a pairing builder build to reduce costs, sure, but you are in the very very extreme minority of pilots that does a 22:00 show and 10:00 release 3 day and thinks that’s the same as doing a 2 day during normal hours with the same TAFB. They are not the same. You can appreciate that now that you live in base. Enjoy the quality CBA you now work under.