Originally Posted by TED74

They don’t squeeze credit out to make up for our gains. They squeeze credit out to squeeze credit out. They’ll continually tweak their own buffers to balance minimizing credit with operational reliability, and they’ve proven they will only take fatigue seriously if we make enough fatigue calls or (God forbid) we have a hull loss or serious injury.

It could just be semantics and maybe we’re saying the same thing, but ain’t nothing you can do to stop the company from “trying to squeeze every last bit of credit out”. They don’t care about your quality of life, they don’t care about your layovers, they don’t care about your WOCL, they don’t care about your commute, they don’t care about your sustenance, they don’t care about your hotel. They care about operational reliability, stock price and shareholder value. If the only way they can sustain or increase those three measurables is to negotiate a contract or LOA in which we achieve our own gains, that’s the only way we’ll get them. And then they’ll still squeeze as much credit out as possible given the gains and barriers we won in negotiations (now aka mediation).