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Old Aug 14, 2006 | 5:03 pm
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Originally Posted by heasdstrong
So I see with the Sept. schedule, we are working shorter days with longer sits. Many trips have you work 1 leg in the morning, sit in a hotel for 9 hours and work one leg at night. So NW is paying for 2 hotel rooms in 1 day. I also see many 25-40 hour layovers! What happened to efficiency?
I had a commuting pilot next to me again yesterday and another right behind him...they were saying the same thing but they thought it was because of min staffing...that they would swap you to an earlier flight if needed....kinda having backups sitting around the system just in case
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