Is It The Pay Houston ?
The conversation about open time lead me to this.
In the IAH B756 base- the long haul Europe and SA trips drop into open time and are being flown by reserves nearly every day.
Either MUC, LHR, GRU, SCL and sometimes several in a day are now showing up in open time. It's like there is some kind of flu bug on the 767-300.
Before the last contract- the 767 long haul flying was considered the cream and went very senior and was rarely seen in open time. That included 767-200, which paid WB.
I am guessing that people's motivation to put up with all nighters, foreign language, customs, and long range nave has been dampened by the fact that the 767-3 pays the same as the 757-3.