Originally Posted by
Albief15
With over 1100 hours in my makeup bank, you can call me any name you want. I'm not going to ask permission to make up some of that time.
The fact is there isn't much/any d/v on the 727, and if I want to work (outside of negotiations) I'm going to try.
And...just a suggestion...I don't think you want to lecture any FOs right now on much of anything. They already feel sold down the river. They are going to do whatever they can to "offset" their delayed upgrades. Asking anyone to "play the game" right now and only do D/V is probably futile.
If you felt I was lecturing anyone, you missed my point, because I wasn't. I was only offering a way to parley stored hours into more cash than those hours were initially worth. Both for s/o's going to the f/o seat, as well as f/o's going to the captains seat. Also, I wasn't suggesting that guys not fly make-up, only that I didn't understand why someone would fly m/u instead of dft/vlt (which was the question that was posed in Beaverdam's initial post.) If guys don't care for my comments, because they feel that I sold them down the river, I'm sorry, but as I've said before, I'm a bystander in this whole affair.
As for your 1100 hours of make up bank, I wouldn't expect anyone to give you grief for using them. After all, it was hours that you didn't get paid for in past, and now it offers you greater flexibility than you had before. Bank hours sort of gives one a boost in seniority, because you have the ability to pick up trips that meet your wants and needs, that you might not have been able to fly due to your seniority. That's always a good thing.