Like I said, I'm not against PS passes. That's fine. I just thought it was strange that such a specific and extremely minor potential future benefit was included in a survey that made us try and choose between scope versus pay, retirement versus work rules.

Give us PS passes, great! Make them first class, who wouldn't want that! Mandatory covered parking and crew bags valet delivered from jetway to hotel room. Gourmet crew meals for all flights. Whatever. But these kinds of things go way, way, way to the back of the line. We outsource half our flying and are so far below one of our low cost carrier brethern that the W-2 and days off differential is sickening, and that's just for small narrowbody flying.

Speaking of vacation though, we need to fix vacation before we worry about adding nifty little perks to vacation. 21 hours a week is absolutely pathetic. It needs to be at least 35 and until we can get a paultry 5 hours a day for vacation, little tertiary perks like PS tickets take a back seat. Give me a SWA W-2 plus reasonable premiums to account for our higher per pilot revenue and up from there for bigger equipment, 5 or more hour a day vacation, massive scope recapture and better QOL all around and I will find my own way to vacation. If, after we get all that, PS vacation passes are still on the table, absolutely let's go for it.