Originally Posted by
flyingmonkeys
I don’t want to say the ability to drop to zero is a myth… but I haven’t been able to drop more than just 1 four day trip in the last 3 months. I was also to drop a 3 day using mandatory vacation float. You guys make it sound like we have unlimited drops. That’s not the case. It would be nice if it actually worked that way. Good idea in theory though.
I think the inability to retain FOs (and hence to upgrade them to create new CAs) has played a major role in that,, because if the legacy hiring, the pi$$-poor first year pay, and the very real threat that the company was going to F9. Two of those things are fixable. But there is no free lunch. The ability to drop easily is purchased at the price of longer reserve time for both new CAs and new FOs. That’s just math - neither good nor bad - and more tolerable for those people when they were looking at 15% annual expansion and three- four year upgrades. QOL work rules aren’t just a trade off with management, they are oftentimes a trade off within the pilot group as well.