I think most guys need money. They took pay cuts and need to make up the loss. I got real mad when they did this with guys on furlough. If no one is losing a job because of it, I don't care if they pick up time or not. Even with guys flying 95 hours per month the airline is still short-staffed and every day they are below minimum reserve coverage. It's the airlines choice not to hire enough. Guys picking up open time is not the problem.
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ghilis101
i wanted to see what the general consensus is on picking up open time. I was on a jumpseat of a legacy carrier the other day and they were griping about guys picking up open time, which meant they werent hiring more pilots to meet this demand and they were keeping all the narrow-body pilots flying something like 90 hours a month, destroying their QOL.
ive never had the displeasure or pleasure of picking up open time since ive been on reserve and i like enjoying all 10 of my days off. however i guess theres differing schools of thought on this. do you:
1) pick up open time to "help the company out" - company man
2) screw em - they should have hired more pilots instead of working us so hard - hard core union guy
3) pick it up - "i need the money" - everyone else out there
what do you guys think? this was kind of an issue at skywest and i imagine it will be a huge problem for most places as flying peaks this summer.