Originally Posted by
Tom a Hawk
I'm getting tired of this don't pick up drivel. Even airlines with a CBA have provisions in it for picking up extra work for more pay. Guess what, ours will too. One of the great things about our airline is the access to open time, swaps, drops, pickups, rsa and vda. Flexibility is a good thing. It's good for the qol pilot who wants to drop to minimum and its good for the high earners who want to max their pay and everyone in between. Suggesting that no one should take advantage of what is offered to EVERYONE only serves to make more people unhappy. It's not selfish, just as it won't be selfish for pilots to do whatever is available in the CBA when we get one.
If the company was negotiating in good faith I'd probably agree with you. It's been 2 years and we only have 30% of a TA, so it looks like they are dragging this out letting inflation cut our pay for them. If no one picked up RSA or VDAS they would have to cancel flights for staffing. This is leverage and might motivate them to stop low balling our MEC.