Originally Posted by
Jedinight
I think your making a big deal about the 5 hours when it’s not. When we had 85 hour max do you know how many times the company maxed out the 85 hours in the last 2 years??
From the SPA MEC:
We’ve just completed building and/or approving the September lines in preparation for bidding. The lines in DTW were a bit problematic, as the company just added another Vegas flight that resulted in the base not being properly staffed. Due to this, many of the DTW lines have a high credit value with Vegas and LAX flight scattered over most of the lines. We know this is not an ideal situation, but we did make sure that a 22-24+ rest period was built into any situation that would require a pilot to change his/her sleep cycle.
Interesting, insufficient staffing, yet they say:
the company hopes to start recalling the remaining furloughs in November and December.
Good news all around, the company gets to use their shiny new 90 hour line build, the DTW guys get to be ALPA sanctioned, mandatory OT prostitutes (albeit at straight time) for the next four months. Not to mention the furloughed guys get to extend their vacation for another four months! A true win-win-win situation. Only problem is for any DTW guy that was looking at taking some float before the end of the year... Don't think that's going to happen.
I guess that September delivery we have been waiting for all year caught them by surprise.