Originally Posted by
WhoCares
It had everything to do with Republic and that's exactly why I posted it there. You have taken it out of context and made it into something it wasn't.
Educate yourself. Reflow 1-2-3.
PBS sucks. That's no mystery. Seniority violations have been happening since Day 1. But for those that get what they bid for, most of us, being reflowed off a good overnight sucks worse than PBS. Especially considering what was awarded is being taken away.
And at the very least, since PBS isn't going to change, we need to protect ourselves from any reflow policy as do Republic pilots with their LBFO. Hence the post in that thread.
Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant that my reply didn't belong in the Republic thread and so I moved it over here to the SW one.
We are on the same page and I just wanted to bring up the PBS myth again. Probably because I just had another month where I lost all my upper layer trips and got all the crap from Layer 6 so that PBS could give me 1 more hour.
Reflow will kill whatever QOL we have left. SAPA is telling everyone that we just need to accept it's going to happen, and we should get an hour or two and be happy. So instead of using reserves, we can all just be reserves. Don't want to pay me to do a round trip on a 4 hour sit? I got an idea, don't f'ing schedule a 4 hour sit in another base. You know why we have so many 4 hour sits? Because it costs the company $7 to have you sit. That is a cheap reserve.
So if I play the PBS game and happen to actually get a trip my seniority can hold (rare but it does happen), it's good to know that now instead of my overnight in AUS, I can be reflowed to ELP. Same thing right? They are both in Texas. And if my overnight goes from 18 hours to 10, that is the same thing right? Because now, I can get reflowed to another base like IAH and sit around there for $7 because we have yet to figure out how to staff an airline. Oh, but now that we raised first year pay to $30, we are going to hire like crazy so it's okay.
Sorry I am just way bitter that we had the summer $hit-show and I actually got my hopes up that things would get better with the block hour reduction. It's time to realize that their isn't any light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks for listening.