Originally Posted by
biigD
Yeah, we have a ton of friggin' work to do on our contract, but GMAFB with this less time off and less pay than a regional. I'm a 5 year narrowbody FO doing better than $200K just flying my line with almost 17 days off per month. United and Delta have it better and that's something we need to fix, but let's not get carried away.
Yeah when I got here my schedules were really bad and the pay was worse. Anyone coming from a regional to here will have a crappy few years unless they go to a very junior domicile. That's just common sense. You're at the bottom of the totem pole again.
The alternative is you stay "senior" at a regional, big fish in the little pond so to speak.
I worked at a regional with an excellent contract. Except for RO most of our stuff is similar. RO is actually industry standard at the major level. Premium was also 150%, and if you called in sick you lost it.
The movable days are BS and that totally needs to be fixed, but honestly I never got moved or flown into a day off. It may happen but it's extremely rare. That shouldn't be a problem getting removed, or modified so you get 1.5 pay for going into your day off.
Also he thinks that if worked into a day off it's for free. That isn't true. If you finish on reserve at 10am on your day off you go on call starting at 10am during your next reserve sequence.