Originally Posted by
FLYBOYMATTHEW
I hear ya. Lots of folks make a lot more money than me using the shady or gray areas. I just shoot for line value or min guarantee and as many days off as I can manage.
I don't mind people using the contract to the max extent possible. Same rules for everyone, and seniority is king. I've got no heartburn about people using the contract.
But.
Telling junior pilots to vote no unless the new contract includes provisions to keep paying senior pilots (or those skilled at playing schedule games) to stay at home while junior pilots fly their lines is unreasonable. The rest of our pilots should feel zero obligation to delay a new/better contract, keeping their pay unacceptably low, in order to subsidize a handful of pilots getting paid to sit at home.
Save the NO vote for contract problems that affect everyone. There are plenty of perfectly valid reasons to vote no that don't involve complicated calculations regarding proposed pay scale compared to current credit numbers that are possible only for a mere handful.