I've heard some guys say they would love to take their families on these 90 day SVT mini-vacations. Then I asked them how they felt leaving their loved ones behind in either HKG or Paris for about 13-16 days while they go off to work in other parts of the world having NO idea what type of medical care or hotel situation they would be face. Not such a great vacation anymore.....
Second; if anybody thinks the company will spend an extra dime for creature comforts for pilots on SVT who bring their families with them....remember the optimizer. They don't care about our families....unless the contract requires them to. I can't believe a senior Union member would actually say we just need "to trust the people in the know". Does anybody think any of our Union leadership had the slightest notion that this LOA would actually personally impact them or their families?
Still waiting to see a breakdown of the openers from ALPA and FDX on the LOA...