Originally Posted by
Piklepausepull
Not to be a dick, but new hires holding a line so early in their careers have no room to ***** about losing their lines and weekends off when the triple dippers are forced to bid regular lines like 95% of the rest of the pilots.
The current life of a newhire DAL pilot is nowhere near "normal" these days! Senior guys bidding reserve and junior guys holding a line is a new version of "The Twilight Zone".
Just wait for the September AE when a whole bunch of senior guys get kicked off the whale! Lots of line holding ERA's going to be flying Lagos, all nighters, and sitting reserve after that!
YMMV!
Allow me to interject. Im a new guy. New guys like me coming in as quickly as we are, are allowing HUGE IMPROVEMENTS TO YOUR QOL. I don't know if you notice it as much since it depends on your category, but this isn't just good for us, its GREAT for you too. We all benefit. That's the beauty of it. Additionally, its not the new guys that were complaining about the loss of schedule, as they were likely not going to get the sweet LCA trips to great destinations on the weekdays etc. The greatest harm would have been to the senior FOs who lose their bidding power. Just making sure you realize we're all in this together.
Note: I am top 15% in my category (NYC717B), I bid reserve on purpose, and up until last month we had zero LCA's. But just because this didn't "affect me" (perception) didn't mean I was willing to throw someone else under the bus for it.