Originally Posted by
Flyby1206
Would trip/duty rigs and min value days put more pressure on the company to schedule you for more flying per day? Start 6am on day 1 finish 10pm on day 4. Hope you arent a commuter!
Absolutely, especially at the regional level, hence this part;
Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
Now, the typical knee jerk answer is that trip/duty rigs "will force the airline to schedule more productive/efficient trips". At the major/legacy/LCC level, that can be the case. At the "regional"/subcontracted/CPA/FPD level, that is usually NOT the case. The problem is, the customer (the major/legacy you feed for) dictates the schedule down to the "regional" level.
The net result is that it causes pilot costs to go up significantly with no increase in pilot productivity, OR pilot QOL to go down, or BOTH.
ANd something else to think about, if the result is what you stated above, guess what a potential pitfall is? Required staffing goes DOWN, IE, less pilots required.