Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You seem to have missed the concessions the company made that offset the changes you discuss.
--Didn't miss them... That wasn't the discussion. We are focusing on one single item here: your mischaracterizing of the reserve ability to fly to ALV+15 as an unimportant change, based on your erroneous straw-man argument that not many guys actually fly to ALV+15. The fact there were OTHER gains (which may or may not have offset this concession) has nothing to do with your constant denial and misguiding that this ALV+15 was in fact a concession. Once again you're trying to throw in an unrelated fact and claim that THIS ONE ITEM wasn't a bad thing.
You also seem to forget that if reserve usage exceeds 60 hours in a month it triggers a automatic increase in manning for that category.
-- I don't forget this at all... but you already, just a page later, seem to forget what I said about 3 times in my post: SELDOM USED LIMITING FACTOR. The average of 60 hours a month isn't even driven close for when this limiting factor comes into play. You always try to claim this average use/manning formula is automatically tweaking things, and imply that it counters the moving of this edge limit from 82 to 99 hours, incorrectly.
Let's not even get into the fact that crew planning made no changes in manning assumptions with the new contract.
--So, why would they? This ALV+15 ability will generate statistics for the company as it is applied over the summer and during low-reserve coverage times. Those numbers will show that a smaller buffer of reserves can be accepted during summer months due to new ability to plan for higher reserve use IF NEEDED. That reduced buffer will be rolled into hiring requirements resulting in a smaller TOTAL hiring number than WOULD HAVE been required... had this ALV+15 single item concession not been part of the total contract 2012 package.
I hate this type of back-and-forth arguing, reminiscent of you and Carl...unfortunately, I have noticed repeated attempts by you to wrongly modify folk's understanding of this one item--ALV+15 concession-- and I can't sit and watch you continuously propagate this disinformation. In the future I will just repost a link to these posts, so that someone at least keeps calling you out on this, if you continue to misguide on this point. I don't enjoy it, and usually find your posts informative at least... wish you'd stop harping this one point.