Originally Posted by
JamesBond
Welcome to the airlines. Every category loses trips all the time to other bases or flat out cancellation. To spin it as a loss of QOL is just whiny. Sorry.
As always, quality content added to the discussion.
Originally Posted by
TED74
You'll never know if this happened. Trips are not pulled from some static pool and thrust apon bases...it's not a shell game, because the old shells are completely discarded for new ones. With the option to operate one or more VBs, Carmen will (potentially) create rotations completely differently to reduce SYSTEM credit. We'll certainly hear anecdotes about how great or poorly individuals' schedules will have been impacted. As you state, "in your eyes" the crappy trip you didn't want could be another man's gold. And frankly, cause and effect between VBs and good/bad experience will be difficult to establish for anyone but those who are awarded VB assignments.
IMHO, this is much ado about nothing until we have exercised at least a few iterations of VB. A year gives us time to do that. Truth be told, hiring and retirements could easily mask some downside implications of VBs. The oenus on DALPA (as demanded by the membership) is to evaluate the effects seniority list-wide and provide that data to us for final yea/nay.
You're right, I'll never know it happened. I suppose I should just accept ignorance is bliss?
I've already admitted that I am no better at predicting the future than anybody else, it really could be much ado about nothing. But why put myself into that situation? The day the TA ratifies, the MEC could give the company 45 days notice and then I'd know for sure that my QOL wasn't affected by VB.
Apologists keep trying to bring it back to the individual's personal schedule. What about overall efficiency? Does anybody think VB drives a requirement for
more hiring? Manpower will be a real issue when we go to negotiate our next contract, why would we gift wrap this little gem and serve it to the company on a silver platter when instead we could get them to pay for it? *shrug*