Originally Posted by
tunes
not the sharpest tool in the shed by any means. They like to use buzz words a lot and this is one of them. First they tell us their biggest problem is open time under 12 hours…..the they tell us it’s note 4. When we explain that is almost always next day stuff since it’s subsequent duty period, there is no response. They are grasping at straws to find any reason to blame pilots and the contract vs having to take a hard look inward and realize they themselves are the root of the problem.
In the latest Approach podcast released this week, RG mentions how they've seen excessive open time due to "pilot behavior", schedule manipulation or otherwise, and they're trying to get back to "pre-November" levels. However, my observation is that scheduling is increasingly chopping up leftover bid packet trips to use 3, 4, 5 or more pilots to cover trips that one of those pilots would have been eligible to cover in its entirety. My question is, are these artificially created broken trip numbers being incorrectly counted towards the pilot behavior metric that RG is communicating to management?