Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Pilots who get paid to sit actually sit a lot less because it costs money and provides no return.
I disagree. Clearly you have never seen an AWAC schedule
. Even with trip and duty rigs they sit upwards of 40 hours at overnights!!
While I agree about sitting around, if you are on salary that is what you are paid to do. You are paid to be available on the days you are working. The Company can use you however they wish.
The fractional pilots seem to have it figured out.
Pay based on duty would work too, but like you said encourage the airline to fly you. But then you might end up with 2 20 minute turns and low FAR block per day, along with 20 hour overnights. To compensate you'd need a trip rig of something like 3:1.
Why not do away with all these rigs, and just go straight salary with contractual limits to what you can be scheduled (here we are at 14-hour maximum)?