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%.
Either we're not talking about the same thing, or one us is really misunderstanding what's being discussed. The "method of assigning trips to LCA's" being rumored to be proposed by the company removes the trips from the FO side. That's bad for staffing, and bad for every FO, since that's one less trip available. it's like placing a non-existant FO senior to you on the list. So while the OE guy is flying the trip of the quality YOU could hold, you're out flying a lower quality trip. And you take the next quality trip from the guy below, who takes it from the guy below that, etc.
I don't see any way a single FO wins in this scenario.