Nice. How did you get all the pay using your payback days and only flying 1 trip? You don't get paid for the trip that gets dropped do you? Also, can you use one PB day to drop an entire 4 day trip?

How can a case study be made on our EFB'. If we don't even have them? Man this is ridiculous!!

"This case study examines why Delta Air Lines chose the Microsoft Surface 2 as their digital paperwork solution, how Delta implemented the devices, and the ROI of the project."


Delta Uses Microsoft to Transform Flight Operations and the Customer Experience - CNN iReport

I wonder what that ROI is right now? :D

Maybe better than the ROI on our bankruptcy concessions?

(sorry, couldn't resist)

That's the beauty of it.......you DO get paid for the trip that is dropped with payback days as long as you have enough payback days to cover the entire trip. If you don't have enough payback days to cover it then you get paid for however many days it does cover.

For my 1 to 4 August trip, I used my APD to drop the 4th and then I called scheduling and used payback days to get paid for it. I only dropped one day with the APD and I'm hoping to pick up a 4 day GS starting on the July 29 and getting back on August 1. If I can get it, I will add 14 hours to July plus 3 payback days back in the bank and get 13(X2) hours added to my August total! The reserve coverage wasn't very good and my APD resets in September.

If you only have one payback day, then yes you can drop a four day trip but only get paid for the first day. If you have more than one payback day, the system will automatically take as many payback days as you have to cover the trip. See above for pay.

Denny

At least we will finally be able to access the internet to view hazardous weather like the little 5 year old passenger sitting behind us.

After all, it is 2014.

Good to know Denny. Thanks for the answer!

Perhaps flying 13 days in a row now that we have the benefit of the new and improved FAR 117.

If you pull back and just look at the money at risk for management.

Millions of dollars per plane.

Hundreds of passengers.

Hundreds of millions in liability.

And.....

No crew meals.

Up to 15 hour duty days not counting waking up and driving to work.

Now 10, 11, 12 days in a row of work.

Is putting our capital at this much risk wise?

Management is playing with fire.

Actually, you will get paid the value of the day on which you put the PB day, not necessarily the first day. This bit me a few years back. I believe all credit for the trip applies on the final day as well, so if you have a busy day 4, and a lot of credit time for the trip, you'd want to place your PB day on that day to reap the maximum benefit.