Originally Posted by
TED74
Are you already in the top-paying category you expect to stabilize in for a while? I'm not. ALV reduction, leading to the same wide body flying spread over more pilots, will accelerate my movement into higher paying (and for my circumstances, better qol) WBB and NBA jobs.
Believe it or not, plenty of folks don't need more money to be happier or gain "quality of life." As evidenced by hundreds of pilots taking a significant pay cut to shed obligations at work, there's a good number of us interested in a lower floor of hourly obligation to Delta. Clearly that isn't the case for everyone... and they can WS/swap/max credit themselves up to work more even with a reduced ALV.
You do also realize this is a seniority based system. So you can either chase seniority or money or a combination of both. I flew with captains back in 2001 when I was hired that were flight engineers on reserve for 8-10 years on the 727. Today most recently we had 1 year probationary captains. I don’t recall more of the junior folk back then ever bringing up lower ALVs. This industry is cyclical. It’ll come back and then like I said, you’ll even be better off then my seniority will ever be.
Be happy you or I never sat side saddle for 8-10 years on reserve... 5 of that on B scale.