Originally Posted by
APCLurker
Agreed.
As the saying goes, sometimes we are our own worst enemy.
Just don't understand the desire to force more people into working on the weekends.
If we can carry an overage of pilots and they are working during the week, that is a good thing.
Not to mention that an increase in staffing levels on the weekend means those currently forced into weekend reserve will be stuck there for even longer.
If you're on weekend reserve, you're stuck there anyways. Nobody is moving around here anyways.
But this is the thing for me, we used to cap out at 70 hours but now in my category this month you can go to 91 this month. Weekend fliers tend to fly every week until they were capped, but now that cap is near impossible to exceed.
What I am saying is if we can live with 50 pilots M-F, we can live with 50 on the weekend. Bring staffing up. They can hire. Personally I'd rather see every category above me need more pilots instead of getting by on GSs and WSs. But I guess I'm kind of pro Bow Wave.
Originally Posted by
Doug Masters
Have to disagree here to some extent. While it might be "good" for the individual to get a GS, collectively I think its bad. We are constantly hearing the phrase "overstaffed" come from Network. This could lead to some MDs to lower paying jets for some junior guys. Not to mention future hiring could be impacted. I wonder how "overstaffed" we would be if everyone just flew their awarded line?
I'm with Doug.
Is being paid ALV-2 better than being paid 70 hours? Sure. Does it screw me over in the long term? Absolutely. Because while being paid 74 hours on the 88 is nice it's not worth having the involuntary ALV+15 system (fewer pilots in every category) given I could make more money flying the 73N with a 70 hour cap.