Originally Posted by Check Essential

Speaking of our enhanced productivity and lost jobs as a result --

I'm surprised nobody has commented on DALPA's latest innovation. "VACATION ANY"

That little gem is going to cost us another several hundred jobs.
Forget spring hiring. Maybe now we can avoid hiring until fall of 2014.

With this latest "improvement" to PBS we can now move those pesky vacations out of the way and pack more trips onto our lines in vacation months. What a great deal! Just break up the vacation and stick it on any left over individual days when we aren't flying anyway. Pretty much the same as the old "vacation sell back" but without all the embarrassment of actually selling it back.

What is DALPA thinking? Is this really what the membership wants? Fly to the FAR's? Eliminate vacations?

Don't guys realize the correlation between this stuff and displacements?

I am thoroughly disgusted with this trend of destroying jobs in the name of more productivity and more flight hours per month. We are never going to see any advancement on our list if DALPA keeps coming up with these things.
Is it really a good thing to have 20 years as a first officer before the first chance to upgrade? Our union has lost its way.

Maybe its just me (and apparently Timbo) who would like to go back to the old motto --

MORE MONEY MORE TIME OFF !