Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Pay is the biggest single component of quality of life. All the other QOL items in reality move the deck chairs on which pilots fly which days but no matter how you write the contract the same number of pilots have to work weekends, holidays and fly the all nighters.
I would agree given the same number of pilots and same number of trips but QOL items make the airline hire more to execute a given schedule which then does NOT just shuffle the deck chairs. As in someone who is flying every weekend currently might get one weekend off a month with more pilots.