Use market solutions first in cases like the reserve rules. They think ad pay will solve that problem? They’re probably right, but the number of hours is probably closer to 3 or 4 than 1. It’s still better than paying out a whole trip at 100% for the company and allows pilots to pick up some extra cash on reserve. Trying to backstop this change by then moving the availability to 0600 was greedy and a tell that they didn’t think 1-2 hours of add pay was enough (spoiler alert: it wasn’t). Hogs get slaughtered.

Another thing that bothered me was the 8 weeks of leave for birthing pilots. I’m new here, but I thought that was such a small get. Honestly I was surprised it wasn’t already in there. What percentage of the pilots does this effect? Want to be an industry leader? How about 4 weeks paid for the non-birthing pilot (including adoption) and 8 weeks for a birthing pilot. This seems like the bare minimum for a company that purportedly cares about their people.