New rest rules and commuting

[OurMoney1]

I've been saying it since this all went down. You do not want Washington legislating our productivity and you DEFINATELY don't want them weighing in on our commutes. Wake up....Washington has miles of problems, I'd prefer we police ourselves rather than leave it up to a committee of suits that dont understand our profession/QOL.

 

[gator_hater]

Should the feds regulate their day at home so they are properly rested before their airline duty day that might go until midnight or later? No fishing, hunting, farming, golf, changing diapers, nooners, etc. on same day preceding airline trip, right?

Impossible cause you advocate

Drop the golf and fishing, limit the diapers I'm ok with it.

 

[Ty Webb]

The thing that everyone is missing here is that, because of the antiquated RLA, combined with the post-9/11 gutting of our industry, pilots are being stretched too thin in all regards.

If you're making $200K and have 17 days off, commuting in the night before and plunking down $100. for dinner and a hotel 3 or 4 times a month is a non-event. If you're a 45 year-old father of three teenagers who is now making $60K again for the third time, with only 12 days off each month, well, not so much.

I'm sure there'll be some naive, mindless jackass responding to this post, parroting management pablum and telling me that "You knew that when you signed up" or "No one's shooting at you, and you get to sleep in a real bed each night", so let me sign off by responding in advance:

Whenmost of us "signed up" this was still a "career", not a "job". When you jackasses wake up and are willing to fight for this to be a "career" again, then we'll have plenty to talk about. Until then, keep it to yourself.

Ty

 

[Paul R. Smith]

I live fifteen minutes from the airport but I went to see pink floyd last night and it was a 3 hour drive home. Am I responsible for the fact that I may have inhaled second hand pcp? I went to bed at 2:00 and have a report at 8:30. Get out of my life already.

Flock off.

 

[B-J-J Fighter]

the thing that everyone is missing here is that, because of the antiquated rla, combined with the post-9/11 gutting of our industry, pilots are being stretched too thin in all regards.

If you're making $200k and have 17 days off, commuting in the night before and plunking down $100. For dinner and a hotel 3 or 4 times a month is a non-event. If you're a 45 year-old father of three teenagers who is now making $60k again for the third time, with only 12 days off each month, well, not so much.

I'm sure there'll be some naive, mindless jackass responding to this post, parroting management pablum and telling me that "you knew that when you signed up" or "no one's shooting at you, and you get to sleep in a real bed each night", so let me sign off by responding in advance:

Whenmost of us "signed up" this was still a "career", not a "job". When you jackasses wake up and are willing to fight for this to be a "career" again, then we'll have plenty to talk about. Until then, keep it to yourself.

Ty

word.

 

[slaquer5]

They do need to put some kind of restriction on commuting, at least at SWA we have guys finishing a trip in OAK, then the next morning picking up trips out of MDW, BWI.. with there 9 hours rest. ( being the 9 hours of rest is used to commute to the next base so they can whore more money). JMO

 

[Chairman]

Restrictions on commuting will only give you less days off overall and have strict rules on how it is to happen. Don't need to get violated because of a commute.

Chairman

 

[Marko Ramius]

They do need to put some kind of restriction on commuting, at least at SWA we have guys finishing a trip in OAK, then the next morning picking up trips out of MDW, BWI.. with there 9 hours rest. ( being the 9 hours of rest is used to commute to the next base so they can whore more money). JMO

Put it in your contract if you're so worried about it, leave the feds out of it.

 

[filejw]

They do need to put some kind of restriction on commuting, at least at SWA we have guys finishing a trip in OAK, then the next morning picking up trips out of MDW, BWI.. with there 9 hours rest. ( being the 9 hours of rest is used to commute to the next base so they can whore more money). JMO

Quick question. The 35 year old kid /Dr across the lake is a budding orthopedic cutter. Is he a whore too because he picks up 12hr rotations in an ER for $$$$. Just wanted to know if i should address him as Dr Whore next time I talk to him.

 

[Benjamin Dover]

Please don't think Slacker speaks for all of us at SWA. I have not paid any attention to his posts until recently. He is an idiot.

On a different thread he was busting chops on Delta as if we are so completely cool at SWA. I mentioned that having worked at Delta and now SWA, same mix of mostly good guys and good pilots and a handful of "others" at both airlines - despite some of our self promotion otherwise at Southwest.

Can you guess which group he must be in?

So how rested are all those "local" guys who drive to work again Slacker?

 

[slaquer5]

not worth it