Originally Posted by
AAdvocate
Was kind of shocked to see the Union's pairing analysis for May that shows a surprising amount of duty periods over 10 hours....... around ~60% of them. I never realized it was that high, no wonder I feel exhausted after every sequence.
What can we do to fix this? I know other airlines have increased compensation for pilots who work more then 10 hours in a duty period. But there seems to be a large contingent of our pilots, mostly from more senior folks, that say if we implement this at AA it will just make things worse. So what else can be done?
We can simply reverse what got us into this mess. Sit pay is very cheap for the company and they love long sits. Get rid of those and the 10 hour duty days disappear.
Unscheduled sits pay (current book), no scheduled sits over 2 hours (solution).