Originally Posted by
Sunvox
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.
I fall short on the big W2 contest but I do pick up some extra time. I'm banking all of that money and will be dropping time to fly a lighter than average schedule the next time there's furloughs.
While my extra flying today reduces current headcount, my reduced flying when there are furloughs will reduce the number of furloughs.
As far as increasing the required number of hours, that's already spelled out in section 5. Question for anyone: the lower limit that one could drop down to used to be 50 hours. I can't find that in the contract anymore. Anyone know how low one can drop their schedule down to?