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That's not the type of contactability they are looking for. Try "we know you have 4 days of 4 sector (with 2,3 or 4 aircraft changes) 11:45 duty hours , but we just need to do one an extra one 4 sector day on that following available day as well" without the ability to refuse.
In short, they want the ability to base everything on a low base pay for superannuation, with a high hourly rate, but the inability to refuse to be assigned additional work beyond you normal roster allocation. Forced overtime that would approach 100% of base pay. Oh, and if they then cancel the flying, no pay.
You could call the current agreement a consent agreement, whereby anything over the minimum could be refused by either party. Contactability would hand the company the ability to assign additional flying without consent, ie create a new obligation on pilots to operate above minimum guarantee at the companies pleasure, without a reciprocal obligation to pay for cancellation. I suspect they will attempt to argue that superannuation should still only be based on base wage.
The creation of a new obligation would be very unpopular and require extraordinary compensation.
Agree with most of what you say here. However re-calculate that "High" hourly rate on your Duty hours and not Credit hours, it suddenly doesn't seem so high.