Capped at 14
Emirates has a number of short night turnaround flights, 40-50 minute sectors to Muscat, Doha, Bahrain and the like. Anyway, the way the computerised bidding system used to work there weren't enough crews to cover these flights.
So, the solution, limit the days off in the computer bidding system to 14 per month, et voila, enough crews to cover the night turnarounds.
Sorted!
And as fatbus says, then pretend that the reason for the cap (in print from management) is because of a disparity in work between the top and bottom bid groups, the premise being that the low bid groups are working too hard (I think the word fatigue was mentioned) while the high bid groups are not working hard enough. Although the real consequence of the cap is more work in the top bid groups and no change to the workload in the low bid groups.
ps forgot to say that the cap doesn't affect me at all because I can't recall ever getting more than 11 days off in a month, and it's usually 9 or 10 days off, with most months including ULH flights to Oz and/or the US.
Last edited by theidler; 12th May 2008 at 17:02.