I think somewhere in there is also a good incentive that ought to be adopted to help out with the pilots that end up doing the four or five short legs in a day, blocking ADG, but working an additional five or six hours because of turns.

 

They can reassign you outside your original footprint in domicile before your last flight assignment?

 

No. “Tag on” flying is not permitted.

 

REG no, but for RES, tag on flying is 100% permitted.

 

you are never contactable on a sit

 

A 6 hour hard min day with no accompanying control and/or rules governing rotation construction would completely obliterate any remaining trip QOL on the domestic side of the house. That is a recipe for disaster. The regionals that have min day have much lower values, usually around 4 hours. That makes the comparison questionable at best.

 

That’s helpful. In that case credit definitely makes more sense.

 

Im with the union on most everything. On this I believe we are wrong.

Calling out sick on a trip because you scheduled a booster shot that is easily scheduled pretty much anywhere and anytime is purely our union encouraging us to overreach.

Professionals pilots know what the alcohol limits are and accordingly drink alcohol outside of those limits. In this situation we know what the limits are in terms of booster shots and that should be scheduled as well outside of those limits.

Now, if you get a booster shot during a stretch of off days and for some reason you have a reaction that goes into a flight then of course call off.

But I do not agree that you should be able to schedule a booster shot Over a trip. It’s one thing if your symptoms go into another one beyond 48 hours but the schedule of booster purposely on top of the trip in my opinion is an overreach.

 

Once they're reasonable on silly stuff like following the contract, I think guys will more inclined to be reasonable on small stuff like this.

 

That’s so funny I actually think the exact opposite.

Now, but I do think is absolute BS are the completely arbitrary changes to the NFLY status currently. They are arbitrarily reducing the number of NFLY days and requiring additional testing to remain on NFLY completely outside of the LOA. That’s a problem.