Originally Posted by Reroute

I'm not opposed to the idea completely, but I am concerned about encouraging pilots to fly more hours to obtain premium pay. The more hours each of us flies, the fewer pilots we need in each category. Not good in my opinion. OTOH, GS allow premium pay without having to necessarily fly that many hours in a month. Even reserves can get them.

Perhaps dropping the threshold for premium to 70-75 hours with a cap, or some hybrid of hour based and GS premium pay.

IMO, the triggers for premium pay should be improved, but should not adversely effect manning. We have some sharp guys in our scheduling committee and a couple of scheduling gurus in the negotiating committee, I'm sure they can find some formula to increase premium pay without reducing the number of pilots needed to fly our schedule.