Originally Posted by
gloopy
I also don't think we're going to snap back to the abusive way it used to be. But if a recovery system is proposed that strictly protects originally awarded report and release times and honors the same redeye and theatre paradigms, hotels in domicile and a positive space commute for each originally scheduled front or back end DH, plus greater of per day pay protection, I don't think you're going to see 51% of the pilot group turn down sorely needed across the board improvements just so that a couple guys per category can buddy bid with check airmen and get their entire month off, or that plus GS for a month and make triple pay.
To quote guys like M88, I'm not sure why we have to give up some things to get others. Why not simply go after improvements?
While we do all hear of guys who cash in on certain aspects of our contract in a big way, those work rules are there to protect everyone. Do we really want more recovery flying rather than less? Is it really OK for a pilot, any pilot, who happens to have an LCP swap onto his trip suddenly have FCO taken away from him and be sent to DKR instead, so long as it's in the same footprint and he gets an extra hotel room, all for the convenience of the Company?
Sorry, but I'd rather have door pay and have my flight time start counting after engine start.