Originally Posted by
Lvlng4Spd
Some good points made. Fitness to fly is the only one that would deter me from picking up something and reducing days off though. Flight and duty isn't really an issue lately with these schedules. I usually go down to the min 11 off so I can't be JM, but I have and will go lower for the right offering. If I'm wrong I'm wrong, but I would not fault anyone else for doing the same.
I dont think the premium pay will be around for much longer. During my CUT training, upper management was pretty open about how they are aggressively trying to get the airline properly staffed so they don't have to pay the pilots so much. I know some of the bypassed FOs were regularly doing over 10k a month with triple premium and captain pay.
We'll see how long it lasts, i personally have been taking advantage of it while its here.