Originally Posted by ghilis101

Good discussion, but I think the issue here is that you are viewing a holiday like it is a special day that currently enables everyone to fly at a premium. This is not the case, as generally speaking, block hours are sometimes as low as 60 percent less on a holiday than they are on other days for obvious reasons. Second, holiday pay does not magically solve staffing issues for the remainder of the month, and by your theory, all that would do is increase the amount of greenslips on other days of the month. So actually, by offering holiday premium pay, you end up in more money in the pilots pockets with more non-holiday greenslips. What holiday pay does do, however, is calls the company's bluff on sick leave usage. They believe sick calls go up on holidays. Call their bluff and stick holiday pay on there and watch them backpedal. They've already said no to holiday pay anyway since I think that was part of our contract opener...