Originally Posted by
BobZ
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.
If your take on it is right (I disagree) then holiday pay will make little difference except for pilots unstacked (or choose to work) over the holiday will get a small bonus and uncovered trips will still get covered by reserves and GS”s.
The only reason to oppose this proposal is because there is likely (my contention) to be far less trips that aren’t bid and filled and flown due to the override.
I have two very senior JB friends who fly a west coast redeye trips every departing Xmas night because of their override. They wouldn’t bid that trip at any other time if it weren’t for the override. Somewhere at JB is a junior captain who gets to stay home all Xmas because senior pilots followsthe money. Arguably both are more happy.