Originally Posted by
pipe
With PBS, if enough people bite on the "deal", the others may very well work more than they ever wanted to. The reserves will also likely fly more. Everything at an airline comes at someone's expense - this program seems to me to come at the expense of other pilots. I'd rather see the company deal with staffing as a cost of doing business rather than voluntarily varying pilot staffing costs on the backs of other pilots.
Just my .02.
PIPE
Fair view, in the example someone else gave if they didn't have this program line value would drop from 73 to 71.
Every other line built would lose a turn during the month pilots would likely work the same number of days. When UAL used the same program and I was on reserve my schedule wasn't any different. Worked my tail off summer and holidays, got to come up for air the rest of the time. As one coming to CO in Oct, a easier reserve life would be great.
My .02