Originally Posted by
oldmako
Of course I could bid the guppy and be super senior, fly my tail off and SRM and all of that. But why would anyone do that when they can make the same money (or more) on another fleet and work much less?
I'll give you one reason to not upgrade for the money....so you don't have to be on reserve.
Yes reserve sucks, but according to a recent poll (i.e. the TA extension ratification vote) 81% of the pilot group would rather have a 15% pay raise than any improvements to reserve work rules.
And between pilots who are lineholders, as well as reserves who live in base, apparently there aren't enough pilots left over to really care about reserve rules.
And sorry about all your previous furloughs and displacements, but we are talking about people on reserve right now and not when United was shrinking pre-merge.