Originally Posted by
captscott26
I hope in the new contract we will see a 14 or 15 day off min for lineholders. That would force the company to build more productive schedules. I think Grazel is of the mindset that we must do as much as possible with what we have, then recall only when absolutely necessary. If you look at the lines here the last six months most are incredibly unproductive, and if they can manipulate the schedules to get rid of these 23 hour overnights and 3 block hour flight days we will not see a need for recalls here for quite some time......fortunately for you furloughed guys I dont think they are that smart.
What concerns me MORE is that if they try to "tighten things up" it may actually result in a DECREASE of pilots. I'm flying 6 day trips worth only 24 hours or a little more three times a month. They have been able to spread around the flying and that may actually be keeping some people employed right now (junior reserve guys).
It seems like our block hours are way down on each aircraft lately. There is room for them to do more flying and I fear that flying 85 hours a month may become the new "norm" around here. Our sick calls will likely increase (its just too hard on the human body to fly that many hours month after month).
If they try to fly us that much, it will backfire, and they will have to bring guys back in time.