Originally Posted by
higgi8f6
Ok, so just a little change of topic. I was told by a friend who does alot of scheduling stuff with ALPA that, under the current NPRM for Crew Rest Requirements that our trips are already 80% in compliance. Very little would be need to be adjusted for us to be 100% compliant. Where we are not compliant is under reserve rules. Reserves are the only pilots who would really be affected by this NPRM.
What I couldn't get out was if we would require more staffing under the new rules.
I'm going to have to disagree with that. Unless, of course, F/O BM told you that, I'd take it with a grain of salt. The majority of my trips would not be legal under the proposed regs. Of course, I was on reserve for the last many months and maybe I got all the rejected trips from more senior people so that skewed my experiences. Oh, and the
vast majority of my made-up reserve trips would have been illegal, so if anything, PDT will have to bring in additional reserve pilots.
On a different note, I had a 'very senior member of our management team' on my jumpseat recently. This person said that mainline is finally willing to accept market prices for Dash-8 leases instead of constantly trying to lowball them. Take that for what it's worth...