Originally Posted by
Nono
We might want to try for a minimum daily guarantee vs an average daily guarantee.
For instance with an ADG…. Let’s says there’s an easy two day trip that has both days below the ADG it incentivizes the company can add a really long third day to the front or back of the rotation which then makes the trip average out to be close
to ADG. Thus reducing our QOL.
With a min daily guarantee the company can add that long third day, but they have to pay you for it above min guarantee and they would have to pay you min guarantee on the easy days. With that said I’m not sure how many trips in the bid packets would pay more with the change.
I was told that SkyWest’s contract pays a minimum daily guarantee fwiw.
open to feed back… thoughts.
I cringe a little every time someone suggests a scheduling practice used a regional. As a general rule, it’s almost always going to make things worse on the whole.
Edge cases are wholly unsuitable for anything other than illustrating a point. They don’t generally work writ large, when you build a bid package from with tens of thousands of block hours.
MCD
instead of ADG is a terrible idea. It would destroy QOL through trip constriction. As noted, we already have MCD (new in C19) of 2:30, and was really intended to make the days surrounding a 30-hour layover suck a little less. The fact MCD makes you more pay for releasing after midnight is an unintended fringe benefit.