Originally Posted by
Chuck D
These vacancies are pretty amazing. Serious question, if there are going to be a pile of new narrowbody vacancies announced on the next vacancy, it's got to match growth in that flying. i.e. it's got to correlate to a proportional growth of lines along with reserve. Just thinking that's gotta at least help the equation a little.
I’m guessing that mother U will prefer to shift the flying around to bases where people are willing to live and bid reserve rather than actually improve the reserve system to encourage more people to put in a bid. EWR and SFO are heavy commuter bases, and I can see why people would avoid bidding reserve.
The amount of premium pay is also influencing people’s bids. Ive had numerous people that I fly with say that they can hold captain but don’t see the need. As a senior first flying premium trips they are roughly making the same money as a junior captain, they don’t fly red eyes or unproductive junk, they are in control of their schedule, and they get the vacation that they want. Why give that up?