Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
Or they see the correlation and acknowledge that it s already baked in due to long standing status quo
It appears that the naive pilot that bids the very bottom of the list to try to increase hits revenue, and then wants to change the rules, is complicit in trying to gore someone else's ox to line their pocket(who's being greedy now)?
It is only the new hire that is at the bottom of a category list thru no fault of their own....all(mostly) other have chosen their poison.
Scoop, I know, I know....the union needs to protect us from ourselves. Let's start with 12 hours bottle to throttle! Slippery slope, isn't it? I mean that would be for the good of all pilots wouldn't it?
My initial gut feeling is to agree with this. As I've said before, if we're talking about exceeding max pickup via swap board, it's flexibility that is completely controlled by the pilot. If we're talking about the C2012 gem of reserve assignment to ALV+15, we're talking about flexibility allowing more productivity completely controlled by the company. Which is worse? Scoop's going to come on here and say "but no one get's assigned to 99 hours on reserve". While that's debatable, the fact that the company can (and has been regularly) assigning reserve guys to ANYTHING above ALV - even one minute - should be a huge problem for people. But senior guys who have a choice of line or reserve, can't see that argument unless it affects their pay check.