Originally Posted by IDIOTPILOT:1287327
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.
20 days off at 60 credit! What an awesome schedule! Yippie for you! This summer I was holding schedules with 18 days off and 88 credit.
Sorry but the whole concept of run to the computer improvement window for a 24 hour period where only the first "1-15 minutes" is important is BEYOND ridiculous.