Originally Posted by
Phuz
I haven't looked at the numbers you are seeing there, but often theres a lot of people who pick up open time in the 48 hour period in order to get other days off. Especially in December, when a person might pick up a two day trip in place of an out/back on christmas for example.
In my analysis of changes in the 48hr. I disregarded any additional hours that were due to trading days for days. I observed a decent number of pilots that had a stretch of days off and simply added an out-and-back or two-day.
I observed no swaps for any reason that actually decreased a pilots pay.
Again, there are many pilots at Piedmont Airlines that are straight picking up time while 15% of the total pilot group is furloughed.