Originally Posted by
Zenofzin
I did a year of commuting to reserve, picked up on aggressive pick up, and some months did better schedule wise then jr lineholders. I'm still a fairly Jr line holder commuting to EWR and with a little schedule tweaking I'm already as of our last June paycheck almost at 200k gross for the year, so the money definitely is good if you want to work. I know a few guys who bid reserve for weekends off and pickup on aggressive and seem to like it.
This is a bit of kettle meeting pot as I have never shied away from a little braggadocio when I thought it was acceptable, BUT there is another side to the high W2. Working "hard" i.e. over 75 hours reduces the number of pilots the company needs. When I started in '96 schedules over 80 hours were rare in fact anything over 85 hours went into the "bank" and didn't get paid until the following month. We need to be careful about how "hard" we work because WHAT IF that data was used to increase the required hours. That, to me, would be a HUGE loss in QoWL.