Originally Posted by
Excargodog
☝🏼️ My favorite posting of this thread. We are seeing the law of unintended consequences coming back to bite us in the arse.
The Colgan inspired changes have put us in a place where CFIs with 1500 hours of mainly puttering around the local pattern in 152s doing innumerable stop and goes while keeping student pilots from killing themselves or bending the equipment, coupled with an instrument ticket that has never actually been used constitutes the lowest common denominator FO for scheduled airline service and, worse yet, that person is being supervised by someone with the same credentials (or lack of credentials) who upgraded after they added a thousand hours of 121 SIC time.
We are in for some interesting times, in the Chinese curse definition of that phrase.
It is not just at the regional level but also seeing it at the LCCs. Filling classes is the name of the game and their are many classes to be filled by people moving up, sideways, and backwards. Mangmnt won't make a move unless amount of flights cancelled hits that sweet spot to many times.
I'm shocked that you guys have no protection on extentions or getting back a day off you are owed. I'd say the union needs to put a stop to the extensions on a day off stuff. No wording can go in both directions. You have a schedule and that is the agreement. Pilots can start interpreting the contract as they see fit, so as the company does. If extensions are being done to you into a day off, I'd say that is a JR assignment and needs to follow JR guidelines.