To all CA/FO can you quantify trip/duty rigs?
 

To all CA/FOs this is a tough question but can you help quantify the value of AW's rigs?

I know it gives Ops the incentive to setup more efficient trips but from a pay perspective what increase in credit hours (on average) have you seen versus if the company didn't have rigs?

I'm assuming it can't be more than 10% additional credit hours attributed to rigs?

There’s no way to know how they’d construct the trips without the rigs. They’d likely be worse but it’s not something you can accurately quantify.

trip rigs: force a minimum level of efficiency to be built into our lines.

Duty rigs: you get paid when a light credit day goes really long due to weather, maintenance, etc.

I’ve credited over 10 hours for less than 1 hour of block thanks to a combination of being on critical pay and a really long maintenance delay. It doesn’t happen often but it does happen.

I agree, trips are very likely to degrade, however can they possibly get any worse? The way I see it, look at all of the opentime, there is a high demand for planes to fly. Although rigs shouldn’t impede the pilot group to get a raise as well as up to date work rules to improve QOL by fighting against current practices in today’s environment.

You mean you don’t like an uncommutable show on day one with five legs, two legs at min day on days two and three and then an uncommutable five leg day four? /s

The trips have gotten better but I still can’t quite figure out why we’re basically idle on days two and three.

I’m glad we have the rigs but honestly I don’t think they come into play as much as we’d like and I don’t think they’re a good reason we aren’t getting raises. There’s an argument to be made for our insurance being worth a high hourly amount but I don’t buy the rigs being that valuable. I’d be way ahead this year if we had Skywest’s 4:12 min day instead of the rigs.

Isn't a twelve-hour last day a standard tactic in the regionals? There's no concern if they need to extend you, because they don't have to save your extension for the next day. Also, you probably didn't use your extension on those min days in the middle.

I'm Mesa and I have to give props to our scheduling. Most trips are commutable with over half starting later and ending earlier. They are starting to put long turns at the end of a 4 day but there are plenty with short ones as well. A typical 4 day credits 19.5 to 22 hours. Rarely is there a 5 leg day but they do happen. This is on the CRJ AA side. Cannot speak to the UA Ejet side though my friends tell me they have better schedules than us.

The rumor I’m hearing that came from management the airline could produce better schedules but it would cost them nearly 2 million dollars for the Sabre upgrade.

Improving our schedules are 100 percent possible.