A few opinions about the IBI TA:

1) It will pass and by a wide margin.

2) A year from now there will be about the same number or perhaps even fewer pilots on property operating a handful more aircraft. The desired “equillibrium” of this TA is for pilots to migrate to the longer schedules to chase more money. EXACTLY what happened with the creation of the CC schedules in 2015.

3) Quality of life will not improve substantially and, in some ways, will become worse. I’d LOVE to be the fly on the wall at the Safety meeting a year from now when they are crunching numbers from FOQA and ASAP data and see the error rates RISING and somebody has the cojones to correlate the numbers to fatigue. The mindset of min rest and 12 hours of duty as a goal is still with us and that won’t change.

4) We’ll be right back here a year from now, pockets marginally more full but still tired, still hating the job, and still *****ing. We’re NetJets pilots. It’s what we do.