I am not in favor of forcing the FO to sit on the jump seat during an OE trip. I was speaking positively not normatively. I was explaining the consequences. I was not advocating for any policy.

The reasons I am not in favor of keeping FO's on the jump seat are that it would be an inconvenience to those FO's, and it would make it harder for people to commute to work.

I would like to see us prevent anyone from picking up any extra flying during the footprint of a trip from which they are released. This would create more GS's for the pilot group, and it would increase pilot pay. I think that's a good thing.

It's not something that I think is a realistic change, because the company wouldn't go for it, and most pilots (most people in general) only think about the immediate most obvious consequences, so I would expect them to vote against it. They would see it as hurting the top 10% of FO's without seeing it helping the other 90%.

In case it's not clear, I'm strongly against pulling the OE trips from the bid package before the PBS run.