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Originally Posted by Intl Jumper
The lines just came out today at ASA and I cant figure something out. SH says there is a record amount of flying this summer, yet they built way less lines at much higher credit... so if your on reserve you actually move backwards... what gives?
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Actually, this is the only smart thing they've done. The reserve pilots were flying more than many line pilots, and many line pilots were flying 4 day trips crediting 17-18 hours. You had reserves coming in for a roundtrip and going back home 5 days later. The only solution would be to cut the lines and credit them higher, and as a result have better reserve staffing. We were cancelling flights for crew shortages.
The airline wants to muscle us into PBS anyway. The red arrow days (and the fact that the entire month on the FO side is red arrow--every single day this month) are nothing more than a management tactic to force us to vote in some crappy bidding system that might be great for the 90 year old guys we have here, but suck for the rest of us.
The Brad Holt honeymoon is over, Delta's Anderson is a jacka$$, and there isn't really anything anyone can do. I can only blame ASA for being jerks about the red arrow days (real dick move in my opinion), which are a contract violation. I can also blame ALPA for being ball-less in the face of increasing management pressure. The fact that FOs make 20-30K on average in the right seat at most regionals is pretty sad. And what's sadder is that if you could actually negotiate a reasonable FO salary (55-60K a year), it would require reinventing the wheel.
As other opportunities have risen, I doubt I'll be here in the near future. I knew what the game was when I got hired, but I got hired before the economy crashed, and wasn't looking at being in the right seat for 8 years. Things change, and so will my plans.
Hope things change for the better for everyone else's sake.