Originally Posted by
CRJphlyer
Wait… How would getting paid to be on duty longer than 10 hours make the schedules worse? If anything it would incentivize the company to make them better so as not to cost as much…
Ah this conversation again.
The people FOR this provision say that the schedules can only get better. The people against it say you just don’t know what the optimizer will do. Or, that the optimizer will have less 1-3 day trips and more 4-5 day trips. Or that you’ll end up working more average daily credit trips. The 18 hour 3 days will be gone and you’ll get more 21 hour 4 days.
We own some good trip mix language that secures a % of each pairing length, but supposedly the company would want to adjust those if we get the >10 hour duty 1:1 pay.
For everyone who says wow this 13 hour duty day would pay X much now!! Well, the trip would probably not exist that way with the 1:1 >10 hours.
Anyway, that doesn’t account for maintenance or weather delays. You could almost bank on flying lower time and getting paid the same.