Originally Posted by
saturn
I'm a skeptical pilot, what's the catch? Hoping that more pilots aren't assigned shortcall each day to make up the gap in daily SC coverage. If that's the trade-off, I'd rather not. Genuinely curious as to why they'd give up that %5 usage if there wasn't a secondary benefit. Especially right before negotiations open up.
My guess is that it’s a carrot that they’re planting now. Next fall when negotiations being they will start assigning 12 hour SC IAW the PWA and then say “we can negotiate it back down to 9 since it’s so important to you”