Any "Latest & Greatest about Delta?" Part 2
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#2602
Hi. UAL pilot here. After going through the threads on here I feel this is the most appropriate to ask this. In our current AIP, we have a long duty day on un-augmented flying over 10 hours of duty paying on top of our current month's pay. To my understanding, this is something DAL got as well. I was curious if any NB pilots have seen changes in the way that trips are built over there because of this rig? I'm currently concerned as I am a relatively senior pilot that flies highly efficient trips and maximizes my time off. In most of my pairings there is at least one, if not two, longer duty days that sometimes get to just shy of 12 hours without any delays. I'm worried that these types of trips will disappear and result in lesser crediting trips meaning I will have to work more days on average. Is this something you have seen at DAL with the new AIP?
That said, it looks generally like the duty days are compressed, which leads to less sit-arounds and fewer short layovers, which I think was a goal.
It looks like they couldn't optimize it totally out, and there are more than a few 2-3 hour EDP payouts. There is a scattering of larger payouts, and I think I saw one 5 day trip worth well north of 32 hours.
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So looking through the bid packages for September that just came out today, it is fleet dependent. The 13 hour limitation on duty days also went into effect, so this duty day limit plus buffer will also work to tamp down the duty day.
That said, it looks generally like the duty days are compressed, which leads to less sit-arounds and fewer short layovers, which I think was a goal.
It looks like they couldn't optimize it totally out, and there are more than a few 2-3 hour EDP payouts. There is a scattering of larger payouts, and I think I saw one 5 day trip worth well north of 32 hours.
That said, it looks generally like the duty days are compressed, which leads to less sit-arounds and fewer short layovers, which I think was a goal.
It looks like they couldn't optimize it totally out, and there are more than a few 2-3 hour EDP payouts. There is a scattering of larger payouts, and I think I saw one 5 day trip worth well north of 32 hours.
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Our Extended duty pay is pay only no credit and it won’t apply to line construction because line construction looks at credit only. Many items in our PWA won’t cause us to work less just get paid more. Our greatest gain is the lowering of the Line construction window. One pilots opinion that tries to fly at the low end of the window and no more.
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Our Extended duty pay is pay only no credit and it won’t apply to line construction because line construction looks at credit only. Many items in our PWA won’t cause us to work less just get paid more. Our greatest gain is the lowering of the Line construction window. One pilots opinion that tries to fly at the low end of the window and no more.
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