Originally Posted by
lowandslow
Yes. Even at over 50% in base I am able to manage one of these every few months without selling out the rest of my schedule. I don't use it as an income booster so much as a QOL booster. But “transition is gone” and “why should the rest of us try to keep something that only benefits the top 10%."
Indeed. Using that logic I might say that I couldn't care less about giving up reserve drops because it only affects a relatively small percentage of the pilot group and I don't ever plan on doing reserve anyway. I won't say that though because I want improvements for all of us but there is most definitely a "Doesn't affect me so screw all the rest of y'all" mentality present in a segment of our pilot group. Par for the course pretty much anywhere though I'd guess.
Originally Posted by
ZebraMan
Well, its really not free credit on all conflicts.
This seems to be an unwelcome surprise to some when they score that sweet conflict.
You carry in 3 days from a 4 day. It touches 4 days in the next month. Planning drops the 4 day trip and you get the credit for 18 hours and the 4 days off..nice.
But....the 3 days your carried in and still have to work lets say credits 15 hours. Congrats...they dropped 4 days and 18 hours and you still have to work 15 hours and 3 days in a carry in that you might have already had off with the schedule you bid.
So yeah, that 18 hours they dropped is "free pay" from the company and the carry over you work is free pay you're working to pay towards the drop. NLV = OLV – TD + TA + CI seems to be something that most people dont understand about our conflict process.
Only great conflict are clean ones that end a month and then a line that starts a month. Most everything else is not even close enough to get excited over.
But hey, Moron tells us that its an easy system and everyone should be scoring fat conflicts at any seniority level.
I'm quite aware of how it works but my TX conflicts are indeed 100% "free pay". I wasn't speaking for everyone who gets TXed, I was simply attempting to alleviate the "confusion" that some people have about how picking up on TX days can be (and is) used to improve QOL.