Minimum day?
 

First, don't get me wrong... I'm grateful and blessed to be working at my dream airline.
But there is one thing that's bugged me, which seems like a major contractual deficit, a problem that didn't even exist at my regional airline.

If there is a 2 day trip, with 1 hour of pay on day 1, and 10 hours of pay on day 2, the trip pays 11 hours. Isn't day 1 supposed to be worth 5 hours at a minimum, regardless of how hard you work the next day?

At my regional, this trip would pay 15 hours. I've noticed a lot of cases like this in the airbus, and I'm just wondering if that's how the contract has always been written. Seems like we're leaving a lot on the table there, and just because I work hard on day 2 doesn't mean my day 1 isn't worth 5 hours of pay.

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While the obvious thing to say is yes that would be nice, the historical thing to say is we are getting better and it is a stair step to get to the top rung. Dont know about most majors; but at Continental, we never had it this good.

This is more or less typical of airline contracts. Its a trip minimum, not a daily minimum.

Most majors have a higher per day min credit than we do. 5.25 up to 6.5 i believe. Maybe next contract, as well as our joke of vacation and training day credit.

"Did you know that Continental was voted one of the best places to work? Bid a month of reserve and see for yourself"

-Floyd

Wouldn't the company just increase the hard time per trip to avoid paying soft time in the event we were able to negotiate a min credit increase to 5.5 per day? I'm ok with only 5 hrs in a guppy per day.

What we've got is a average min per day which pays at least 10 hours for this trip. What we want a min per each day which would pay 15 for this trip.

I think they would try to even out the hard hours per day to keep each day as close as possible to 5 hours.

We should be going for a min per duty period. Have you seen the trips with a 5am departure to a day sleep, then fly out that night? That's two duty periods but it all falls in same day.

Have you guys read 5-G-2?

Old UAL had min per duty of 5 hours, which resulted in a 3 day redeye trip (either east coast or Hawaii) that only paid 10 hours. Or a 5 day domestic trip, 4 duty periods with a 30 hour layover, that paid 20 hours.

Pick your poison. The company will figure out how to build trips that cost them the least amount of $$.