Originally Posted by
GS-Alpha
As a junior pilot, you’re likely to be getting lower credit 3 day trips, but those trips will have 3 days off after each one. You’ll be able to swap to any 4 day higher credit trips in opentime that you like, if they cover the days of your trip plus another day (either at the start or end). You would be giving yourself just 2 days off but in this way, I think junior pilots will actually be able to create themselves some quite nice rosters post roster production (as long as they keep an eye on EOT and are quick in trading, because lots of people will be doing this in my opinion). It may well be that in order to get them, you’ll have to just offset TASS and therefore not get paid anything extras, but you’ll be able to improve the quality/variety of your trips. (This is all just my prediction of how things are going to go, because we don’t actually start the new rule-set until October).
Interesting you read it that way, I didn’t. I’m not sure they’ve put meat on the bones other than to say ‘all LH trips of 3 days or more duration will generate 3 days off’. Have they said anything more about that, that I’ve missed? If not then my take is you would still be entitled to 3 days off after the trip you’ve picked up from OT in your scenario.
Perhaps by picking up OT you will eventually waive your right to the 3 days, but if they’re being put in place to fight fatigue it’s a bit much to then start going against it. It’ll be interesting to see what the final outcome is.