Originally Posted by
GunshipGuy
???? So a bottom 90% guy will fly with a LCA. That's not much of a change for the 90%...same trip, same pay. Personally, I'm not against changing the contract on this as long as they can find a way to allow an FO to not be assigned recovery flying. I think someone mentioned a method of assigning trips to LCA that would take care of this.
Perhaps if they did get this concession from us it would benefit FOs in anther way as well: Super senior FOs bidding up to captain thus improving the seniority of the bottom 90%.
I agree with this. Am I for recovery obligations? Hell no. But I could care less about protecting a good deal for a small number of pilots that should move on anyways. I know, I know. Choices, and that opens up capt seats to jr guys, you can do this too when you are a senior FO, etc. maybe this will creat faster upward movement for the "other" 90% of F/Os. Whether you like it or not, there are quite a few jr FOs that I know of that agree with this.