Originally Posted by
spooldup
While technically, yes, it would be possible. We are talking about pushing back flights to 1:01am departures....
While I am sure they would LOVE to skirt the contract and push all of our pairings to departures like that with 12:01am shows, we also have to think of airport slots, gate slots, and when PEOPLE will actually want to fly. This together means that we will likely not see a bunch of increases in 1am departures.
But, imo,
yes, min daily of 5:15 ALONG with a duty rig of 4.8 or 5. Which would equal about an avg of 5:15 daily.
Hence there also needs to be specific language that says if a trip starts after 10pm, or ends prior to 630am it pays a minimum of "x" hours or min duty credit. Basically get paid extra for redeye flying.