Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
Perhaps I was a bit too forceful. Here is my real point. We have a fairly complex, though very fair, contract. There are lots of provisions in it that enable different pilots to pursue different paths. You have determined that bidding reserve in a vacation month is a good path. I tend to agree...IF you live in base. Others, especially commuters, have determined that being on reserve is never a path they wish to pursue, for whatever reason.
That is all. "One man's trash is another's treasure" and all that.
I don't live in base. (2 hour flight) I DO have a crashpad though which makes it a bit easier. Since it is NY, I have to stay twice a month (which sometimes less, sometimes more) to "break even" on what a hotel would cost but that is not the determinate as to how much I go there.
My point was that I have read a lot of work less for more pay, yet this option which accomplishes precisely that is getting stomped on. Fine.