Originally Posted by
BunkerF16
I'm not going to be specific, but I am a senior 320 FO. Bid CKA trips. Never took vacation (could bid around days I wanted off), and I sold back PTO.
I took a 320 CA upgrade in the latest system bid and will work 3-4 more days a month and take a pay cut. Think about that one for a second. The only reason I took the upgrade is because if I had stayed an FO, the givebacks our union agreed to would have cost me another $50-60,000.
So I'm glad it worked out for you. But dont go around peacocking, strutting up and down flaunting your gains when there are significant number of pilots who are similar to me where they will work more and either not achieve a raise, or actually make less than they did before this CBA was signed.
Thanks for not being specific! But feel free to castigate others from backgrounds or seniority levels you deem unworthy.
I wish we didn’t give away CKA trips btw. But if your schedule was mostly bought off in a typical month than you are in the extreme minority. And if you’re senior you can have prime vacation weeks and likely get overtime pay on top basically earning 300% on a vacation