It’s great that you have it all figured out, but considering you’re not even on property yet, these kinds of statements are incredibly unhelpful. The company can see these forums, and I think a majority of us who actually work here and pay union dues would prefer to let the Union speak and negotiate on our behalf.

Bottom line: many (if not the majority) are NOT willing to sacrifice pay in favor of being home every night. And there are plenty of pilots who are not home every night even with our current model. As has been pointed out multiple times, the fact that we don’t do overnights is for the company’s benefit, not ours, and they will continue to utilize that model as long as it suits them. Pay will be dictated by supply and demand, and in order to get pilots, our pay needs to be in-line with any other Airbus operators…if not better.

This constant under-selling and stating “I would take X over Y or Z” on forums like this is detrimental to our cause.