I agree with you that the company pushed too hard this summer but Plenty of guys worked their schedules for max time off. Our vacation value is industry lagging by a lot, but I think our scheduling flexibility is awesome. At about 70% in category I was able to stretch 2 weeks of vacation into over 30 days off spanning July and August.

Yes I missed the GS fest which I would have loved to participate in, but I really enjoy my summer vacations and have no plans to change.

Were you IA’d, were you greenslipping, or did you just fly your PBS awarded schedule? I agree that it sucks when can not change your schedule and if you were IA’d that really sucks, but I really don’t have much sympathy for guys complaining about the tempo while flying GS’s.

What really bugs me is the BS reserves required reserves available formula. I get that July and August are restricted but how can October be mostly negative? I am also curious about how all the GS’s will affect the manning formula going forward? It seems to me that this past summer record number of GSs would trigger the manning formula.

So I agree that we need to make a lot of contractual gains regarding scheduling and QOL issues but we do currently have a bunch of tools that can be used to mitigate getting abused.

Scoop