Sailing, stop being such a condescending asshat, and realize that many/most on here don't have he knowledge of every nuance of he contract that you do!
I would have made he same observation, and it wouldn't have been a dumb post, just uneducated.

5 of the 7 A340-600's which were listed :)as for sale on the Airbus site have been removed, only 2 now showing for sale with an availability of Jan & Feb 2015.

The leash is only greater than 3 hours if they somehow changed the FAR requirement for 10 hours prospective rest after notification and somehow convinced them to agree to a rolling window of pre-assumed notification even though you're not really notified yet. So basically your 10 hours prospective rest will start while you're sleeping or otherwise out of contact. I can't believe the FAA is OK with that, let alone our own union.

Yes this does add one hour, but at the price of giving up the 3 hour notification "hammer" which the company desperately needed an out from. We sold a ton of leverage and a slam dunk grievance win for one hour, when by the company's own admission they could cover the vast majority of long call trips with 16 hours notification.

In any case, how exactly without a 3 hour leash do you get prospective rest 10 hours prior without having the requirement to be notified at least 10 hours prior?

If you are required to be notified 10 hours prior, that is a rolling 3 hour leash.

"Condescending Asshat". I love this forum. I'm going to try to work "condescending asshat" into a WARTS brief tomorrow.

This^^^

Many hours sitting next to Sinca, laughing my arse off. He has a way with words.

R1

Wait, isn't "Don't be a condescending asshat" part of your normal brief to the FAs? I thought everyone included that...

Yeah, that got a laugh out of me too ;)

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[QUOTE=Check Essential;1647726]Our "productivity" is getting out of control.
It costs jobs and it eliminates family and leisure time.

Every time we allow more flying for pay and no credit it just continues our steady march toward no limits at all on the number of hours people can fly in a month.
This TA apparently is going to go almost all the way.

Reference Donatelli's bullet point:
· Adopts FAR FDP limits for actual operations.

That would seem to suggest that we've pretty much given up on any notion of limiting the amount of flying an individual pilot can perform in a month. If its legal under the FAR FDP limit then we can do it. No more contractual limits.

I think that's a horrible philosophy for our union to adopt. I don't want to work 99 hours. I want time off as well as more money. I would much rather have an old fashioned "cap" and then progress to the next higher paying seat that much faster to make my money.
But I'm apparently in the minority.

If every widebody captain was capped at 75 hours just think how many more widebody captains we would need. And so on down the list.[/QUOT

Best post I've ever read on this forum. I wish every Delta pilot could read it and embrace it.

+1

If we all flew less, like we did with the cap and bow wave, we would all take a giant leap forward in equipment or seniority, not to mention quality of life. And probably would make up the difference in pay with an occasional green slip

It was about the 5th post on the subject and guys kept trying to post that 3 pilots are cheaper then two so I admit a bit of frustration. If they made sense airlines would have been flying them.