Broke in CVG
Broke AGAIN in CVG!
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2001
- Posts
- 385
Be careful what you wish for folks. 3 days don't have much room for rest. Long overnights lead to more work days for the same pay. Just like minimum days off in a contract lead to fewer overall days off, for instance. (Socializing the days off from the senior lines down to the junior lines. Fewer 21 day off trips, but a lot of 14-16 day off trips, etc.)
Just pointing that out.
I'm all for rest rules, but they may carry some baggage along with them.
With our schedules?????
As a 10 year FO (displaced) bidding in the top 10% I am doing 4DT with min days off anyway. 85% of our trips are 4DT now, with less than 20 total greater than 20hrs.
Who the hell gets 14-16 days off? I haven't pulled 14+ days off in YEARS! And only one month when I was bidding #5 8 years ago in the right seat doing 7:58 1DT did I pull 19. Those days are LONG GONE! Our schedules are so unproductive that for the first time our rigs are actually paying. So bring on the long overnights, as with the TAB rig it doesn't matter how much I fly during the day - I'm going to be away for 20 days a month and paid for 20 days TAB. As long as the trips are going to be very unproductive, they might as well be very unproductive with me sitting in the hotel sleeping rather than sitting at the airport with 3-5 hr breaks between every leg.
I'M TIRED OF SCHEDULED REDUCED REST OVERNIGHTS! Out of the 8 years on reserve in the Left seat, I can honestly say that at least 30% of the flights I was fatigued AND more than once fatigued to the point of fighting to stay awake coming down the ILS. I even drove right past and missed my exit on the way home one morning..... THIS HAS TO CHANGE AND CHANGE NOW!