The Alarming Amount of Duty Periods >10 hours
04-13-2026 | 07:03 AM
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The "data" was "but but but ACD." No one wants to go back to the world before ACD when a 1-1 transcon with a 24 hour overnight paid 10.8 hours. At the end of the day the company is going to find a way to save the most money possible on whatever provision we negotiate. That shouldn't stop us from getting good things in the contract.
The scheduling committee has enormous power at APA.
The scheduling committee has enormous power at APA.
Just like anything there are unintended consequences, do you know what they would be if we implemented this provision?
No one is against it, they are against implementing it without knowing what will happen to schedules, and making a pro/con list.
04-13-2026 | 07:34 AM
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04-13-2026 | 08:25 AM
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And yet ACD created other issues people complain about such as more legs per trip and additional turns on the last day.
Just like anything there are unintended consequences, do you know what they would be if we implemented this provision?
No one is against it, they are against implementing it without knowing what will happen to schedules, and making a pro/con list.
Just like anything there are unintended consequences, do you know what they would be if we implemented this provision?
No one is against it, they are against implementing it without knowing what will happen to schedules, and making a pro/con list.
04-13-2026 | 09:17 AM
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On the other hand - plenty of commuters here prefer to fly 3, 4 and even 5 day trips.
04-13-2026 | 09:47 AM
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04-13-2026 | 09:57 AM
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No real limits on how many 3-days the company can make mainly.
I think it'd be easier to take sequences and break them out to make more productive 2-day trips, more 3-3 types, to stay under 10 hrs then stretch out to 4-days and incur all the additional RIG, Hotel, Per Diem costs, and low operational probability of completing the whole 4 or 5 day sequence.
I think it'd be easier to take sequences and break them out to make more productive 2-day trips, more 3-3 types, to stay under 10 hrs then stretch out to 4-days and incur all the additional RIG, Hotel, Per Diem costs, and low operational probability of completing the whole 4 or 5 day sequence.
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