I can understand resistance to allowing MLOA credit count towards the GS trigger. But let's scope it down to only crediting pre-posted MLOA, which is all I'm really advocating. I'm not talking about dropping a whole schedule and only flying premium. I'm saying that for a pilot who flies half a month at Delta (mil leave the other half), achieving 40 hours of flying in those two weeks seems like a reasonable threshold to become GS pay eligible. If someone takes 5 days of MLOA, they'd still have to fly 67 hours to hit the trigger.

As it stands now, that 5-days-of-mloa pilot has to fly 80 hours in 25 days instead of 30. Remember, that pilot has to be doing military stuff on those 5 days...they're not just days off. For those that don't know how it works, we get ALV/30 credit for each day of MLOA. So it doesn't tie directly to the GS trigger, although for these purposes, we could make it so (e.g., use 80/30 for GS credit proration instead of ALV/30). I have a hard time understanding how penalizing a military leave taker seems like the right thing to do...but if y'all are that afraid of military members stealing your greenies, I guess we're stuck.

BTW, the company would like us to prepost mil leave to the maximum extent possible (desired, not required- enhances efficiency), and this would be one way to incentivize the pre-post.