Originally Posted by
sailingfun
How much laundry do you have? Are you one of those pilots who used to take laundry from home to do because it was free?
Again it comes down to intent. They will ask the principles involved who wrote that section if the limit was intended to be 50 total if direct billed or reimbursed. I find it hard to believe however you need to do more then 50 dollars in laundry on each layover.
Your comment about pilots taking laundry from home is urban myth and hopelessly parochial. Why sell snow blowers in Minneapolis, we don't need them in Peachtree City?
Think about it - you do a 9 or 12 day trip, you pass through AMS or NRT every 3rd day. You have to have laundry in by 1200 (?) in AMS to get it back by 0900 the next morning. In NRT I believe it is 1200 to get by 1500 the next day. Depending on when you arrive or depart you might only get it done every other pass through. Assuming that most cannot pack for more than 5 days, and might be be up to 6 days between laundry, so when you do get it done on a AMS/NRT layover it might be everything you are carrying, or constantly be cycling 3 days worth through, but $50 won't even cover that.
At the inflated prices the hotels bill the laundry at, $50 (37EU) is roughly 2 uniform shirts, and a pair of trousers, and one change of underwear. Not even the best case 3 days worth.
This is why fNWA had these arrangements. That's why LOA 10 was incorporated. As to intent make sure you ask the negotiators who wrote it as opposed to the ones who survived to the combined MEC.
@ a $50 direct bill limit significant pilot out of pocket expenses will result from company imposed rotation lengths. Trust me we will be seeing more of the longer trips.
Allowing this to stand is a tacit concession.