Originally Posted by
notEnuf
You are right about the separate categories. There's no way management would limit the flexibility of the pilot group. If anything they would have us fly more derivatives like throwing the 765 in with the 7ER. But that will never happen either because the 7ER would get a free pay bump. I meant a dual operation with the 787 kind of like the bastardized trips the 7ER has. Domestic day end on the coast, international 3day, domestic day to finish. A true 6 day crap trip gives you the worst of both worlds.
Yeah it would depend on how it was implimented. The scenario(s) you describe could happen if the "optimizer/burnback" prime directives were the fulcrum of all things. However having some domestic trips in the bid pack could be a very good thing from a pilot QOL perspective. More options to build a line is a good thing. Sometimes PBS will throw a big trip to get a pilot "full" when a much smaller trip that doesn't exist would have done the trick.
Plus the over hyped and operationally pejorative "widebodies to MCO" rhetoric misses the RASM/CASM reality of certain markets sometimes. Especially the highly competitive transcon routes where ULCC's now throw dimes on the dollar lay flat seats on the market and will soon do so for trans Atlantic. We have to have the ability to seat dump on the seat dumpers at will.