Originally Posted by
CaptainMark
we were offered 2 days of draft a month for the extra days of flying that the postal contract brought..compare the lines before and after the postal contract..more days of work...remember? we are doing it for straight pay....
Not true, IIRC, the postal LOA wanted us to give up 13 days as min days off for 11 days as min days off. It would have been a huge give back and they could have gotten up to 5 extra days from some folks for the pittance they were offering. Also, the economy turned somewhat and in the end they didn't need the LOA to get ramped up. Not saying they aren't cranking up the optimizer, but the company got a little "lucky" when we turned down the LOA in that in the end they didn't need it.