Sounds like the solution to every problem is not making crappy trips. Just sayin'

APA should create an IMAX service where you opt in and they handle it on their end. You just show up to work the trips they've got on there for you. I'd do it.

I’ve been here 3 and still have 0 in the sick bank.

Simply build better trips. I just saw a 3-4-2-3 trip on open time worth 21:55 smh

Yeah sounds about right. Probably matching pay/credit and multiple duty periods extended past 12h with 11-12h rest. Those type of sequences go to the junior reserves—which is why they’re all complaining about being burned out while their Reserve Days Worked for the month are floating around 11-13. That sequence should be an easy fatigue call out by day 3.

1:1 pay for duty periods extended past 10h—problem solved. They could also push for a minimum daily guarantee SWA style without the AM/PM trip construction, but that would require APA to lead the way for once (specifically regarding lineholders rules), which will never happen. Those industry leading LTD benefits though…

Fatigue is wonderful on reserve. Just fly the first leg out of base first.

You hit the nail on the head. That's why reserve feels so awful. Juniors get called often, not every single day, but when they do it's to fly the trash nobody else will touch with a 10' pole.

Who's right? The union says the 10 hour rig would push us towards longer trips. My solution, if onerous trips are a necessity, is to make them 2 days. 3 leg days pretty much suck but if it's a 2 day at least it ends quickly and you get more nights in your bed.

I get how scope got sold now.

I remember being at the regionals and everyone was like "just make it mainline with mainline pay". Now that mainline has absorbed a lot of regional flying, "we don't want that flying anyway".

Bingo.

Scope was a great late 90's early 2000's rallying cry, but in reality, few missed that flying and then everyone proceeded to craft their work rules assuming that flying would never return. For us, that flying, combined with ACD means the whole system needs a reboot.

[sarcasm]But thank God we got rid of slash trips![/sarcasm]

Keep gaslighting, you’re just naive sitting on the pretty side of the seniority list. I’ll fly 1.5-2 hour legs any day of the week to a regional airport and back with 5 hour total daily block and layovers generally around 16-18h because the duty stayed below 10h. Unfortunately 3 legs at AA looks something like 2.5h leg, 2.5h sit, 3.5h leg, 50 min sit, 2.25h leg, resulting in 8.5h block and over 12h duty because we have zero limitations on trip construction in our contract.

This isn’t even slightly exaggerated either.

The vast majority of trips in my base start and/or end with a day exactly like that. I bid as many 1-1s and turns as I can, but there are so many more trips exactly like what you’ve described that you’ll inevitably end up with a couple on your award.

Must be fixed.