Minimum day?
10-27-2016, 04:15 PM
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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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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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10-27-2016, 04:23 PM
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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.
10-27-2016, 06:41 PM
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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.
10-27-2016, 07:52 PM
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I think they would try to even out the hard hours per day to keep each day as close as possible to 5 hours.
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10-27-2016, 08:40 PM
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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.
10-27-2016, 10:30 PM
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Pick your poison. The company will figure out how to build trips that cost them the least amount of $$.
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