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Sink r8
Makes sense. A couple of issues I'm going to set aside regard the higher monthly hours, and the sick time. I've not gotten into the 75% sick pay yet. Then again, I agree that for someone with a big problem, our sick policy, and our medical insurance, and our survivorship benefits are not adequate. Hopefully, that changes. As far as the hours, if you made more by virtue of working more hours... that doesn't really lead to any conclusions.
On the other hand, if you work more days for less total hours, which is a durty rig / trip rig problem, then that's of obvious interest for all of us. What kind of trip rigs and duty rigs did you have?
Once upon a time, we had something called Variable Minimum, and I'm pretty sure we got no less than six hours per day. I can't even explain it offhand. Does anyone have the old rigs for C2K in digital format to post here?
The duty rigs at NW were about the same as Delta. We had 5:15 average per duty period and NW had a 4:15 minimum per period. Both airlines had 1 for 2 if I recall. Not sure if NW had the 1 for 1.75 on night ops. Delta had 1 for 3.5 trip rig and NW had a 1 for 3.75. That change has been big on the long international trips. 12 day trips now pay what 13 day trips paid. It also helps on all the 4 day winter international trips.