Originally Posted by
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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.
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.
Unde the old contract you were never full at 70. You were full at the ALV every single month. New contract you are now full at the reseve guarantee. The average pilot at Delta has 6 plus known absences a year. If the ALV is 77 your now full at 75 hours verses 77 on the old contract. If you have a week of vacation your now full at 54:15 vice 77 in the old contract. Alv15 and other changes will cost us jobs. Other changes gained jobs the net effect will be less then 150 jobs system wide.