Originally Posted by Groundpointfife

How many days off does a 40/week laborer get? Lets say they work M-F every week, its roughly 8 days a month. Crew support is also being paid less than a first officer to deal with a job that nobody really wants. So even accruing user time faster does not mean they are getting more time away from work.

Since you said bottom line holders get 11 days off in DTW, compared to a M-F 40 hour laborer, they still get 36 more days off per year. Over a month more time away from work over the course of a year.

Plus pilots have the option to drop trips. Sometimes that isn't going to work out, but I am pretty sure crew support can't say, yeah I will just try dropping these days. And I am pretty sure that crew support does not get displaced for IOE.

I have bad news for you. Life ain't fair.