Originally Posted by
Dorn
Thats not what I said and I don't like what you are implying.
I specifically said I don't want credit removed for pay purposes but if the system looked at my rotations flight time I would be able to pick up more trips. I don't want credit removed. Im at 86-ish hours of credit yet I'm not flying anywhere near that in actual flight time. So, if you think having me willingly pick up another 15 or so hours of flight time is somehow destroying the industry so we can simply just have bodies on the seniority list for the sake of having more bodies on the seniority list than you and I see things rather differently regarding how business operates efficiently. Adequate staffing is critical but just having more people on the list is not cost effective and actually hurts us. Workers comp, insurance, medicare, social security etc. are all costs an employer has to take on for every employee. So while I'm all for adequate staffing don't tell me that if I want to work a little more that I can't so we can simply hire more people.
In a simple way, what I put in bold above, is the overall goal. Maximizing credit while keeping actual flight time to an overall minimum.
I certainly don't bemoan you for wanting to pick up an extra 10-15 hours, but I think what you need to keep in mind is that if MAX Pick Up was based on actual flight time, a good degree (in my opinion) of pilots would be picking up that extra 10-20 hours of flight time each month. Undoubtedly that would have adverse effect on the seniority list.
It wasn't too long ago when pilots were trip parking as a workaround to MAX Pick Up. I'm not a particular fan of being allowed to pick up flying over vacation either (glad to see it's not allowed).
If it's in the contract have at it, no complaints here, but we need to be careful about all these "productivity" flying opportunities in search of a few extra hours each month.
Not sure if your new or now, but most of us realize that extra 10-15 hours means a lot more to someone getting by on first year salary as opposed to someone who's on the 12 year pay scale.