Originally Posted by
STILL GROUNDED
We'll get paid but that is not going to account for the additional days we'll have to be gone. We won't be flying as many hours a day, the company is not going to want to hire and train more pilots to cover the flight hours they need too. We'll be working min days off and unproductive days at that. My idea of work is not 3 hours of flight time, 9 hours of duty to sit in a hotel for 19 hours everyday only to block 15 hours for the four day.
Why would your days get less productive? Wouldn't that just make the company have to hire more pilots and get more hotel rooms? There is X amount of flying to be done every day. If each pilot does less actual flying, then more pilots will be needed to cover it. If they get more pilots on a daily basis by cutting days off to the contract min, then they are still paying more by hotel - and giving lots of incentive for days off to be returned in negotiations. As someone else mentioned, if the suck factor gets too high, people will walk away from the job in large numbers. Its pretty close to that point now - and management knows it.
I think things will not change very much. The company will still try to minimize their costs by flying as tight a schedule as they can.