Originally Posted by
shiznit
You and your reasonable "compromise"... Ugh. It's a pretty decent idea on paper, it looks like it would work in the real world.
I don't want to give an incentive for "SET CONDITION MAX CREDIT". The extra hours is the extra pay. If you want to work more that is your own business, but I do not submit that it should come out of the compensation package for other pilots who don't/can't fly extra.
A premium of 7.5 hours of 1.5 is 3:45. Theat 3:45 per month equates to 45 hours per year. I would propose putting that value towards the following:
APD (4-days) be dropped with pay ≈ 21:00
One extra week of Vacation = 22:45-24:00*
Where would others like to see more pay for the same amount of work?
*Prefer the VAC day value be increased again in C2015. Does not account for the large staffing impact of the extra week off for every pilot...Which is huge.
-Get rid of DPA (both of 'em
) and just have an ADG of at least 5:15, with > 5:45 being preferable. Get rid of the 2200-0200 carveout while we're at it. 117 created a boatload of 30 hour layovers that end up making 18 hr 4-days, 13:30 hr 3-days, etc. REGs aren't even protected by that, and RSV's don't get DPA....We're at work, pay us for our time.
-I'd like to extend your APD idea, and make it redeemable (and paid) in up to 4 chunks. There have been several years when I used the APD but only needed it really for one day. If it was paid, it would be nice to be able to retain the remaining un-needed days for later use. Further, un-used APD days would rollover as SUPP vacation days if they aren't used in a calendar year. Sorta like a super-PB day where you don't need "company concurrence" to use it.
-I'd like to see GS pay protection, possibly with some reasonable recovery obligation in the footprint of the original trip. I hauled ass up to the airport to help you guys out, and now I'm only getting suit-up pay (2 hours) for a NOOP???
Once you get burned on that, you don't forget
-Remove any exceptions for Reroute pay. If I am home more than x hours after I was supposed to, that and any subsequent duty periods should all be at 2X.
-RSV guarantee = ALV, ditch the minus 2 thing and let it go all the way up to 84. Or better yet, reel in the upper limit of the ALV down to 83 or 82 - baby steps, but at least let's get it going in the right direction.
-DC to 16 or 17%
-If not an extra vacation week, at least slide the accrual schedule up halfway. So if it takes 6 years to reach each extra week now, maybe we could settle on getting to each accrual step a few years early - if they won't go for the extra week, this would at least be a step in that direction for everyone that's not maxed out. Those that are maxed out get an extra 30 hours of sick time a year anyways, so that's like a super vacation week that they're already getting <---TIC