Originally Posted by
Cycle Pilot
So, working six to seven days is not enough for the junior guy? At what point is it ok for the senior guy to get off the couch and come to work? I just listened to a senior guy talk to an ALPA rep in the JFK crew lounge recently. He was talking about how unfair it is that there are buckets to begin with. He was telling the ALPA rep (and the ALPA rep was agreeing) that reserve should be 100% seniority based. Junior guy always flies. Nice. I know it's coming. Didn't somebody just submit a proposal to remove the bucket system?
So are you saying a junior guy hitting bucket 2 with 32 flight hours on the 11th is not fair? If the senior guys sits on the couch for the rest of the month in bucket 1 so will the junior guy in bucket 2. The bucket system is self correcting in this regard.
OBTW - the system you are describing is exactly what we had at DAL - I should know, I was the plug in LAX back then. The bucket system seems to me to be a very compromise between spreading the work and honoring seniority.
Scoop