Originally Posted by
Scoop
FTB,
I am not sure that I understand this. If these guys are senior why wouldn't they bid these trips initially? Why drop "good trips" to roll the dice with open time?
Are you saying that they drop/give away their trips down to a zero line so they can try to sharpshoot made-up trips with lots of credit and DH's that were not offered in the Bid package?
If this is what is going on wouldn't this help the Pilot group as a whole? It pumps thier original lines back into open time and they are trying to minimize the hard time that they fly - requiring more Pilots overall?
Scoop
Well, you couldn't pay me to take on that risk but people live by it because there's money in it. Its obviously a NB game though and played more when GSs were a rarity. When I sat RES on the 88 you knew if you didn't get a 4-day or 3-day then you weren't going to work because the 2-day and day trips were picked up by the WS folks.
To the larger issue, what I am getting at is GS vs 1.5 pay, we shouldn't totally ignore the debate because GSs spread the wealth, they don't necessarily do that. But at the same time, I am hesitant to encourage WS pick ups because of 1.5x pay. I think I'd like to see a multiplier above ALV or something BUT also a cap.