Rat,
You’re too busy being angry to understand what I’m writing.
Im not advocating abolishing night credits.
If night credits are abolished and the credited hourly rate stays the same, Qf requires fewer pilots to do the same number of stick hours. The productivity gain is that the pilot payroll is less for the same number of stick hours. No effect on longevity though.
Maggot,
Explain how the disincentive works
Rated De,
Night credits is not a protection. It may have been in the 1960s, I don’t know.
In the early days ( up until 1980s) it and other things meant that a Qf pilot didn’t get anywhere 900 stick a year. Long trips, long slips,Qfs hopeless scheduling system, all combined to keep annual hours low. Changes to all these things plus increased divisors plus a willingness of pilots to chase the $ bumped annual hours up. The biggest thing though was the movement of the airline to direct flights which meant lots of stick hours in the one tour of duty. Guess who chased this flying as a preference, the pilots themselves.
Hello, hello! The biggest whinge you hear in short haul is that patterns don’t have enough stick hours per day. Fewer stick hours per day equals less days off.
Again, what your activity in the airline industry?
BTW, Angry, I’m still working.