Originally Posted by
UGBSM
1.5 doesn't cut it.
They tried that before here at Delta. Reduced greenslips to 1.5 and then found out most pilots didn't want to give up their days off for that. The company gladly went back to 2.0 greenslips. It's the proper incentive to get trips covered.
And limiting you to one greenslip until everyone in category has had a chance for one addresses your spread the wealth issue.
While factually correct, you are missing the greater point. For starters, when GS only paid 1.5x under our BK contract, it was also a contractual provision that vacation and CQ did NOT count against the GS trigger. Therefore for a GS to even pay 1.5x (back then) all the rest of your flying had to exceed the ALV, NOT counting the GS.
Who flies most GS? Senior guys.
When are most GS passed out? In the summer.
When do most senior guys have vacation? In the summer.
Therefore...most senior guys had zero incentive to fly GS, because the fact that they had vacation weeks almost ensured that the GS would only pay straight pay.
Then, the only guys really putting in GS were the reserves (where a GS really acts more like a GS with conflict, with the payback days).
The company was having destabilized categories, and it was all their own doing. ALPA told the company, "pay the GS double, AND count vacation and CQ back into the GS trigger, and your problem is solved."
Which is exactly what happened.
But, the moral of this post (now that I have rambled some) is that there is a big difference between guaranteed 1.5x pay that you know about days or even weeks in advance as you build up your line value with WS, swaps etc, versus waiting until the day of or day prior to "maybe" get a GS, and maybe not.
And of course there is always the decision you have to make. "Do I put in a WS at straight pay, where the odds are good that I will get a call from scheduling, or do I hold out for double pay?" And of course if you get a WS, then someone junior to you gets a GS, then you slap yourself because "hey if only I had known...."
But the opposite happens as well. Perhaps you have put in for a GS, none have been passed out, and an easy WS gets awarded to someone junior to you. Once again the "if I had only known that no GS would be offered, then I would have put in for a WS."
We shouldn't have to approach things that way. Just put in for more flying if you like, don't wait to get the "magic" GS call the day of or day prior, and if you get assigned more flying, anything over 75 or 80 pays 1.5x. What's not to like?