Virgin Atlantic pilots consider strike over fatigue
Bit wide there. Depends what you mean by "trip". One lasting four days followed by two off times six gets "no compute" in my little head when trying to fit into a month.
Very tough balance call for Management who have hands on the till and us lot with hands on the tiller.
I had the rare pleasure of working for a company that got it right. Top view was that there was no need for Unions if Management was right. It worked. Some schedules were looked at really hard and binned when fatigue issue became obvious to the planners. Some trips were planned with generous layovers which impacted profit margins but it all seemed to work. For a while.
Try, after min rest in LAX with inability to actually rest, for any number of reasons and advise the Company that you are unfit to operate.
It takes top-class management to recognise, deal with it and and research ways to avoid. REsults are probably far too expensive and you have this wretched impasse.