Goggles,
So is it then in your eyes problimatic to white slip? What about a green slip? Are you not “taking” a potential job away by doing that? I’m being sarcastic or maybe to you I’m not but if by me wanting to pick up some flying is “stealing” jobs then we’re not looking at this through the same lense. By that logic Let’s just staff up to 20k Pilots for staffing sake. ALPA will love it since they just added 6k more unions dues.but that has unintended consequences as well. That in turn harms us because if you look at it in it’s ultimate conclusion Deltas over bloated balance sheets (labor is the highest cost) would cause distrucive $ loss resulting most likely in a furlough come an economic downturn
So imo yes we should have the ability to have efficient staffing where we can drop/pickup as we like ( which we do at the moment) fleet depending which is an amazing QOL choice. I never said let’s just make FAR’s as they are as the limitation I’ll even agree that maybe a 90 max flight time be a limit. (Again not for bidding but for picking up trips)
I think in the end it’s almost zero sum. Some months I’ll drop trips because I want the time off. That is possible because at the same time someone else is willing to pick up my trip. I wanted to pick up a “qualified” two day trip later in the month (some one out there needs that off) I’m willing to pick it. Win win. Nope. Now it’ll go to a reserve guy who probably would have had that reserve day at home with his family, or the pilot trying to drop it will have to work it. So tell me how is that a fair deal in the end.