Originally Posted by
sailingfun
If I were you I would go back and read the augmented ops section. You yourself posted it was going to cost jobs. It went on and on despite the fact that a little common sense would tell most pilots it was of very limited use. The same thing applied to the change in augmentation rules to Europe. The forum assured us everything was going two man. Never happened and in fact more flights like Dublin were augmented. The same thing applies to VB's. Best case it's of limited use. There is nothing magical about a VB. Much ado about nothing!
The thing that saved us was the non-extendability of the max 2 pilot block times. The company (all of them)
hated that language, as they were (and remain) absolutely addicted to the "legal to start legal to finish" concept. Thats why they tried in the dark of night to get that changed. They didn't get away with it...this time. They will be back at some point, probably when we're a little deeper into their self induced "pilot shortage" with that and more wish list items. Just because we didn't lose a battle doesn't mean we've won the war.