When this NZ contract was set up, crews were rostered 8 days off per month. If a captain were exceedingly company-minded they could sacrifice one of these precious days off, and be called into work for the princely sum of and extra NZ$250 pay. This clearly did not work, and has since improved somewhat - they negotiated 9 days off pm and a higher payment to work on a day-off. The work rate is high...also FOs are only on 50% captains pay.... it does not take many neurons to work out that the boys and girls in nz will not be keen to give up their valued days off when someone else canot work.
Last edited by Roller Merlin; 14th Mar 2011 at 09:55.