My experience has been LCAs are generally in the top half of a category. The trips they bid are productive and great commuter trips if they commute. Several do so they can have seniority in a category. If you pull these trips you are pulling the better trips from the bid. The wash-down affect for every FO below the most senior LCA in your category is huge and is exponential for the bottom line holder FO.

I have young kids and finally hold weekends off and can get other days off as needed, birthdays, game days, etc. I had to give up coaching for work when 5 days hit the 88/90 and I plan to not upgrade until I can have some control over my schedule as a captain. I could be a NYC captain now. So could most of the pre2009 hires. There is a reason that captain position goes so junior. QOL. The key for me is QOL. I am voting NO on QOL alone. 8/0/3/3 is not enough for me to waste my time reading another section. (but I have)

This "TA" is not worthy of a MEMRAT vote but now thanks to a rushed MEC and pilots with $$ about rates, rates, rates in their eyes my family will probably suffer. Make my life better not worse that's your job. Less TLV, NO pulled trips, better reserve window constraints would be a start. Not the opposite. But thanks for the 5 cent perdiem bump and doubling ground transportation allowance, which I think I got once so far. This is a cruel joke and even a crueler reality if this passes. Nice job. Now I'll have to volunteer for ALPA so I can stay home and coach again. Now I see the plan, this is nothing but a recruiting tool. The real TA is upcoming right?