If you have the first 12 or 15 days off for the month on a WB international category and you're at 78 hours with an ALV+15 of 89, you're very limited. You're stuck at 78 hours of pay.

For an FO thats about $140K a year, less than a MD88 A.

You trip park you could pick up a 30 hour trip and get a 108 hour line and you could make $60K more a year doing that. There is incredible incentive to trip park.

If it happens 35 times or so in a month then you've eliminated 15 pilots in a seat.

I can understand the frustration with pay, being that your average 765, 744, 777 FO has been here 17-20 years it'd be frustrating. I get it.

But 15 pilots are being displaced and I got a feeling trip parking has something to do with it but I'll concede that other factors as Sailing pointed out that might be in play in addition to trip parking.

But the proof would be if trip parking was made illegal, if staffing immediately increases on the international side then you know...