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Old 11-04-2012 | 06:37 AM
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freezingflyboy
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Originally Posted by IDIOTPILOT
On the ERJ side, my last awarded line was 75 hrs and only 12 days off. After the ILIW, I only had 60 hours of credit but 20 days off. Now I get to choose when I want to come to work. I can pick up remaining open time or other people's advertised trips. Some of these advertised trips offer extra money. If red flag is up, I have the free time to pick some of that up too.

There's no way with my low seniority I could ever hold something this nice with PBS. Would it be nice to get a line I wanted without having to do a dance on the computer? Absolutely. But the ILIW is why all levels of seniority have some flexibility to make their lives so much better.
But wait! How can this be so?!?! I thought the ILIW was this evil thing the company MADE you do, just to get everyone clustered around their computers once a month in a concerted denial-of-service attack on scheduling! Do you mean to say that you actually IMPROVED your quality of life and probably your paycheck!?!?

/sarcasm