Originally Posted by
Scoop
3. When DALPA and the company revisit this they will have all the data from all categories. No amount of complaining will matter if an analysis of the data does not show a problem.
But what would constitute a
problem?
Originally Posted by
Scoop
5. Guys have also said that the new reserve systems weighs seniority much more than for line-holders and used the example of a senior line-holder getting a green-slip and then going to the back of the green-slip list, spreading the wealth. True, just as a reserve pilot getting a green-slip goes to the back of the list.
I said that if seniority should be honored everywhere like the reserve RUO, why is it not honored as it once was* with green slips?
*according to the pilot who returned to a pure seniority based GS system. No limits, no spreading the wealth. In his view, being in the top 3% of the category, he gets screwed.
Originally Posted by
Scoop
6. When bidding for his schedule the senior most pilot picks whatever trips he wants. Even the number two guys cannot pick his very first trip until the number one pilot has picked his last trip. Is this also unfair? Should the senior guy pick a single trip and then the number two pilot his first trip, and the the number three pilot pick his first trip etc, etc...
Seniority is absolutely honored all over the place, but where do you draw the line? Because a line is being drawn.
For instance, with reserve a relatively senior pilot in comparison to other reserve pilots (but probably still junior to the most senior pilots) will be paid 70 hours but can easily fly 0 hours if they know when to and not to ask for SC and how to bid their days. Multiple pilots did this in my category.
If that's okay, why don't we have a system where senior pilots can bid a line, drop their flying and get paid ALV?
Yes I realize the company would frown on paying two pilots to fly the same trips, so, in this case the dropped trips will be picked up for 0 hours credit. Which is about the same with reserve, you're not getting paid any more to do any more flying than you normally do.
That's why I say this system should not be so arbitrary, come up with a mathematical equation that on the last day of the month publishes the raw thresholds based off available to required ratios, block hours to be flown, open time snapshots, average length of trips in category, longest trip in category, average short calls per pilot for a given period, etc.
I do not like arbitrary.