There's a pretty huge disconnect between the handful of pilots who are making bank every month with transition conflict and JA, and pretty much everyone else.

A senior FO mentioned a month he had recently. He bid transition conflict, and got it. A few days before the end of the month, he dropped the previous month conflicting flight. When he got called for JA the first week of the month, he picked back up his original transition conflict trip at 200% plus he got the company to restore those days off by dropping his last trip of the month. He then picked another end of month trip up later on with move-up.

Ended up flying maybe 50 block, getting paid over 120, including one trip that he got paid 3x for (the one he dropped and then got JA to fly anyway).

The handful of people who do this regularly are completely out of touch with what the rest of the pilot group cares about. I'm sorry, in the time I've been with spirit I've come to give zero shxts about the opinion of people who are getting paid 5x or more to NOT fly their awarded trip, that I'm flying for them instead for straight time at first or second year pay.

When those people tell me to put off a pay raise in order to protect their ability to make me fly their trip while they sit at home getting paid 5x what I'm making flying their trip for them, It's all I can do to bite my tongue and not tell them where to stuff their contract priorities. Someone else sitting at home flying 50 and crediting 120 does not pay my bills, whether I'm on reserve flying his lines or trying to figure out how to add a little more flying to a month but being foiled by 29/7 or whatever other conditions are in place because of the transition and JA games being played.

I'll hold the line for rules that benefit everyone like the ability to drop reserve days, open time pick-ups paying extra, etc etc. Just don't whine and complain when a proposal that benefits 90% of the pilots will impact someone's ability to fly 50, credit 120, while making the junior guys suck up transition flights that someone else is also getting paid far far more to NOT fly. No sympathy, especially when their proposals do nothing to put food on my table. I've got no reason to continue subsidizing them sitting at home.