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.
I've flown with enough pilots who were on greenslips who told me they bid off for whatever holiday with the idea of getting said greenslip that you are just making this argument up as you go along. Your logic doesn't make sense other than that you want to frame this as a money grab by junior pilots. Let's say even if that is the case, what is the problem with a pay bonus for pilots working the holiday? Is it because you wouldn't be able to have the holiday off and get the pay bonus at the same time? Even if it was a smaller number it would have an affect (although a larger number would tend to attract more bidders who go for greenslips now).
Can you actually point to any logic why this wouldn't work? You are making statements of fact that don't really follow with pilot group behavior and then accusing those on the other side of ulterior motives.