Originally Posted by ilinipilot

I think this bid and subsequent ones present the company and ALPA with a unique opportunity to help all us line pilots out who commute. I plan on asking JG tomorrow to form a committee to deal with commuting issues. I know its my choice to commute blah blah blah but some of us cannot live in base. For example military people, kids issues, babysitting issues, medical issues, cost issues all are reasons why guys cannot commute. So this is a time for the company, alpa, marketing, and scheduling to get together so show they care about the pilots.
Some ideas I have
1. survey the pilots again and the top bases with the most commuters make the lines 50% commutable.
2. provide free hotel rooms a night for pilots
3. find out where the most pilots commute to from that base and assign overnights in those cities to that base. ie a lot of ATL commuters will be from MEM so assign 320 trips with MEM overnights.
I know this will never happen but i believe it is in the best interest of the company to make commuting as painless as possible.
Dont forget just in time for summer the company is pulling seats out to put in econo comfort.
I for one am getting tired of hearing marketing drives this airline. There is no reason they cannot make our lives easier by swapping out fleets. in most of our cities we can interchange a 737, m88/90 and an airbus and we need to start doing that so our commuters are taken care of.
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