Originally Posted by
gloopy
We could monetize the buddy bid triple dip scheme we just got back recently, but beyond that there isn't a whole lot more low hanging fruit for them to get. We're at the point where even a slight additional gain in productivity would appear to be a huge give on our part. IOW, we're not falling for any more of that.
Agreed. by the buddy bid triple pay scheme, do you mean giving them back recovery for OE? If so, bite your tongue, Sir!!
Originally Posted by
gloopy
Another thing they could do, and we need to be on red alert for this, is their never ending fantasy of wheel spin up. They want that and they want it bad. They might even brive us with "door pay". If you see that, watch out because the castle walls have been breached and they're pouring in with ladders to storm the keep. It may appear they just screwed up and gave us a bishop, but 3 moves later when we've lost our queen we'll realize what they did. If we get door pay, the next step will be for wheel spin up (perhaps forward only plus with oil pressure, to insure time on the tug is excluded completely). What do we care though, right, because we're on door pay! Except we just lost 3-10 minutes of block off of every flight in the system.
Depending upon how you do it. You could set it up so that the full flight counts as block time for scheduling purposes and aircraft movement under its own power would only count as actual. This would decrease the amount of 23 K. removals for overflying, but would not allow us to be scheduled for anything more than we are today. Would that be such a bad tradeoff for door pay?
Originally Posted by
gloopy
But other than those things, there really aren't many more veins of productivity they can mine.
They could offer us higher pay rates via pay banding in return for longer category freezes.