Originally Posted by
FIIGMO
That is plain out of line...
Much more to life and choices and circumstance to judge others so harshly without knowing any facts. I am Not willing to allow out of base pickups mind you but, at some times using the laws of the system to benefit is a perk of collective bargaining. When we all agree on a secret handshake about protecting jobs with work action, and some barking sphincter takes the monetary advantage you then may have a point. For now, you are out of line...
Not out of line at all.
FIRST, you apparently took the "beaten about the head and shoulders with a herring" seriously, which should be an indicator to the astute reader of some tongue-in-cheek writing, not to be taken wholly seriously.
Ok, well so let's say you took it seriously.
How long did we have to work to get the trip parking stopped? This is fruit off the same tree. This is not something we can currently do, this is a NEW WORK RULE LOSS that is being discussed! Therefore NO ONE has any "life and choices and circumstance" that are affected by this hypothetical! And your straw man of "judge others so harshly without knowing any facts"-- JUDGE WHO?? NO ONE can do this, therefore I'm not judging ANY ACTUAL PERSON harshly. I'm judging a job-reducing short-sighted potential work rule harshly--yes. If YOU felt insulted, well I've got nothing against the Fiigmo, you shouldn't.
1. I didn't insult anyone. Someone asked for pro-con, did NOT say they supported this. I didn't call them or you anything; I posited a hypothetical pilot with a particular opinion that no one (that I recall) has espoused. An opinion that I'm 100% against, and that I pre-emptively attacked before anyone particularly supported it. Guys should know and be told in no uncertain terms when a work rule
2. At some point the trip goes up for GS coverage and someone IN BASE gets the chance to make more $$. No matter WHERE or HOW it is done, allowing ANOTHER group of pilots to offer to fly that trip, which the company currently does not have the ability to access or with reduced restrictions (!), will reduce the pressure on the company in that base for coverage and will reduce the number of trips put out for GS. The END EFFECT is to reduce the number of pilots needed to fly the entire Delta schedule. All of that is negative.
If you want to fly trips out of a base, bid the base. Or bid OOB White Slips like Dalad does above, which are already in the coverage matrix.
When someone at that base doesn't want to fly a trip and puts it on the swap board--it's THOSE GUY's TRIP, Guys at THAT BASE. To take or to let fall into the coverage ladder, and maybe go to GS IN THAT BASE. I can just imagine the bidding cabals that would emerge if we were foolish enough to ever let this camel get it's nose in the tent...