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%.
Actually pulling trips for IOE would affect the whole FO list top-to-bottom as those trips would be gone before the PBS ran thus pushing down everyone's choice. That would truly lock in the personnel savings that the company would be looking for.
Some sort of limited recovery would be the least damaging change, but any change would be a "concession".
Every "concession" has a price. What if company said for recovery on IOE, all pilots now would get one PAID APD per year good for up to 4 days? Wonder if that would pass?