Originally Posted by Captain Bligh

WN pilots more "efficient"? Incestial breeding hog excrement.

CAL 777 pilots at one time flew EWR-HKG-EWR as a 3 day trip with an 18 hour layover at the airport. PBS (the value of which was intentionally way understated by management and tremendously under valued by CAL negotiators that caved on Contract '02) builds every line to minimize needed "man days". This past summer I was able to bid more consecutive days off in a row than I have ever been awarded on a month where PBS puts work days immediately adjacent to vacation time.

The key difference is, that the WN pilots are paid incrementally more for additional effort. Our current management expects that effort for no additional compensation and in some cases they try to demand it for nothing, or resort to intimidating it out of pilots.