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Piloto Noche
That's good info.
I don't believe just limiting carryover is the fix though. I quickly brought up three calendars that show guys working twenty-eight days minimum out of each of the last six months (that's as far as I went back). That is work for four pilots being flown by two. If I can find two guys in about ten minutes doing that, how many are there really? There are guys who hawk open time every ten minutes throughout the day and even in lean times, there are trips popping up in open time.
Rather than just limit our carry-over built lines, I think the union should address a temporary max BLG.
We don't need to eliminate carryover trips... Indeed, the company needs carryover to provide continuity across bid months. What we need is an automatic "protect min days off" provision for each crewmember. That way the carryover flyers fly their carryover trips, but get trips/Rdays dropped in the next bid month to make min days off. Equal provisions across all seats, regardless of where the company chooses to apply carryover trips.