Originally Posted by
full of luv
In some smaller categories, major holidays go unstacked to near the 50% point.
If you had a premium on a holiday trip, senior pilots would sort and select the one that they enjoyed vs asking for the holiday off and waiting to see what gets left open to be covered as a GS. I would think that unstacking wouldn't even play out, and I'd bet that a junior pilot wouldn't get a holiday trip even if they wanted one.
Guaranteed trip with 150% pay that everyone could plan around would be superior to the pop up GS on Xmas eve, eve that needs to be covered.
Your logic is flawed. You assume the bidders who can hold a holiday off would then obligate to fly over a holiday because its a 'sure thing' at a lower pay rate.
Not likely.
Pilots who can hold holidays off....bid them off primarily because they want the days off. Its pretty simple to figure out.
If you are accurate in whats goin on...its only a narrow slice of reality that has this issue. A narrow demographic in small categories.
Its not likely holiday pay is gona have any meaningful impact in those situations.