Originally Posted by
nwaf16dude
Sure, we may have been helping out the company, but I never saw much downside in it for the pilot group. It was a great way to check out another base if you were considering bidding into it permanently. Like nu said, I never heard any body complaining about it. Seemed to be a win-win for both sides. Consider Tsquare's standard complaint that ATL is over-manned while NYC guys can't drop anything. Would it be bad for us if we had a system like this in place that allowed us to volunteer up to NYC for a month or two?
Agree. I'm not sure what incentive there would be for the company to staff a base marginally. Temp bids came with a quite a bit of financial penalty to the company.
Under the APA system, there was more potential for the company to "flux" the bases, but that never seemed to be a problem, and there was little, to no churn at the bottom (although I'm sure there were some isolated cases).
Nu