Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
We do have some cherry items but on the whole we average. Red/green is leading, transition is leading. We need real trip and duty rigs, a mid day not a min duty period. I came from line bidding with better vacation drop so that exists. Anyone with line bidding will have transition conflicts and training conflicts it's just a matter of how they get solved. Ours is the best by far but none are hurt financially by bidding into a conflict. We gave away most of our training conflict with the iPad LOA. Easy 1% staffing reduction for the company. Having instructors on the seniority list is a great thing that is being eaten away at by the company and we currently have a grievance for. Our instructors don't bid regular lines which would be huge for fos being able to bid a check airman line and get the entire month off, so we are average there. Having four days off is nice but working six is not. Ask a sw guy how many days off they have between trips due to trip rigs and min days off of 15/16.
Point being we are average as a whole. I also consider scope a work rule and the most important one of all and the codesharing language is industry bottom.
You're right on the scope and code sharing, thank The Baby Jesus that no other airline wants to subject their passengers to our seats. Six days isn't nice either. I really think though that we've got some short sighted guys that are going to see second and third year FO pay go up $20-30 and vote away line bidding, transition conflict, 29/7 and the like. I see no change to min duty period, no duty rig, and no improvement to our work rules just so guys can see their hourly rate is near the legacy airlines CURRENT contract. All I hear is hourly rate, hourly rate, hourly rate over and over again.