Originally Posted by
gold
In my opinion it 90% likely we will never have critical pay in the same form it was in pre-October 14. Same with the chances of back pay.
I think the best situation for the pilot group and company is negotiating for 150% SDO with a 4-hour min day in exchange for eliminating critical. We would also have to get stronger language on reserve buffers. That is only my opinion. A lot of hard liners would probably disagree.
I wouldn't agree with that in exchange for the current process we have now. Critical pay is suppose to keep them honest with regards to min reserves needed, if there are no repercussions for going below the min reserve level we will see black numbers on the reserve grid 100% of the time. At XJT everyday was negative so nobody could trade a crappy 4 day for a nice 3 day after the ILIW (aka SAP), the critical level prevents that and gives all the round 2 pilots a chance to move their entire schedules around. I was originally on SCR for xmas and new years and was able to trade those days off becuase they were green, if we compromised on critical language I would have been stuck working those days so not worth it for 4 hour min day and 150% SDO. I make more credit with more days off the way we have it now even with critical pay not being available.