I'm curious to what others think of this capture over 8 block override proposal. Our current contract captures all over 10. The COMPANY's Oct05 proposal had a capture formula that would capture all over 6 on 2 man crew, all over 9 on 3 man crew and something else I can't remember for a double crewed. Chimenti ripped their proposal for being worthless but I can't figure out how and no one in ALPA ever got back to me on the specifics as to why it is worthless (after numerous attempted questions).
So the company's proposal seems better to me. I believe we have a lot more 2 man crew aircraft blocking over 6 hours in a duty period than we have any crew aircraft blocking over 8. If you block 8:01 you only get 1 extra minute. Under the company's proposal if you blocked 7:30 you'd get a extra 1:30 and I think that would have been a better benefit.