Originally Posted by
PasserOGas
We do have carrots to give. Our ability to go beyond the scope of our PEA duties in order to smooth out day to day ops, and engage the customers (ie standups) among other things. Notice I didnt mention cleaning.
I look at DAL as the model we should be emulating. DAL has buy in from its pilots. It has purchased this good will with consistent industry leading pay and benefits.
No doubt those guys hold the company to account with CBA violations, and even *gasp* vote down unacceptable TAs.
They also do stand ups, single engine taxi, pickup open time (for double pay) and go the extra mile to get the metal moving.
Its a balance.
And at what point is it being an enabler? For example, I'm not going to compromise safety by delaying writeups the way it's been for years. they're questioning people's writeups now even though they should have been all along. we should never do more than SOP. doing more just makes you part of the problem.
I don't like this idea of balance because that is what got us to this point since day 1.
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