Originally Posted by
Milk Man
I hear this all the time, but we already have multiple 10 plus hr duty days. Not much will change, and if they squeeze more flying in, it would quickly be fatiguing. I call BS on this. This was a talking point from super sr guys when schedules werent as bad as they are now. ATL 320, you can guarantee a 3 day is always 3/2/3, and 2 day is 3/3. Not sure what else you can do to make those worse.
It's not about making those trips worse. Those multi leg days would stay the same. It's about eliminating the few good trips we have left, such as 1 leg days under ADG. Used to have them all the time 5-10+ years ago, now they are there if you want them but few and far between, especially during months that the company turns up the dial on ALV, as identified by the OP. Higher ADG would completely eliminate them.
Let people have the option to bid for those if they want. Or let people bid for the high block trips. Don't force everyone into high block max duty trips.
It's not BS either. As several have said here, the scheduling committee ran trials and the result was awful, even when adding +0.5 ADG.
Don't vote for this unless you get the actual data from your rep and are okay with it.