Originally Posted by
Dakota
Okay, lemme see if I understand what you are whining about. You CHOOSE to fly the Airbus. Domestic hours get slashed (no fault of your own, merely system form). International guys are flying 12-14 hour legs (not their fault, merely system form), but they should not get paid for those hours? They aren't flying more than their line.......it's just the nature of international flying. So I guess the right thing to do was to give any international CH over 50 to those domestic guys flying 1 hour legs to Tulsa just so we can be all equal although you are working less? Socialism at it's finest. What a load of $hit!
Just thinking out loud here: if international pilots are getting full BLG and domestic pilots are getting 60% of normal BLG, doesn’t that mean there is overstuffing for international pilots? And therefore, shouldn’t there be a displacement bid from domestic to international so as to normalize the disparity in BLG? Seems to me that if we have a mechanism to prevent furloughs in our cba (socialism), we should also have a mechanism to spread the pain? It doesn’t seem fair that one group of pilots take the burden of not furloughing another segment of the pilot population while another segment doesn’t have any skin in the game. If we are going to have this mechanism in our cba, shouldn’t it be as socialistic as possible? Otherwise you end up with a system that pits pilots against each other.