Originally Posted by
Super EZ E
The reason the "abuse" happened was because of poor pay. And the abuse you refuse is called dropping days. So folks would rather drop and not get paid instead of going to work. The fix is a pay increase not getting rid of dropping days. Other option should be picking up open time while on reserve but that would interfere with more senior line holders. Don't buy what the union sold on the so called abuse. They were the ones who pointed out how to checker board because the senior guys did when they were on reserve! We were sold out and told Reserve was a "Country Club".
Revisionist history right there, with the pilots as the victims.
Guys checkerboarded for various reasons and many did it to only have single day reserve RAPs with early release on each day. They wouldn’t be used and then waited for 200% calls on their days off because with our 29/7 language, it was hard to find pilots who could take a 4 day on their days off. Reserve pilots could because they weren’t being used with the checker boarding drops.
So the reserve guy takes the 200% trip, pays it forward to the next group of RAPs by dropping a few days and take a little credit hit, so they can take another 200% call on their next stretch of days off.
It was 100% contractual but let’s not act like guys we’re dropping only because of the pay. Because that logic doesn’t hold up...