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The covid reserve was highly abnormal and not likely to come back in a recession. The company wanted to keep pilots on property. If furloughs ever occurred for economic reasons it’s unlikely we’d have people sitting around doing nothing, they’d trim the fat until they had just enough to ensure operational integrity
Plus very senior people are sitting WB Captain reserve. It’s something that can affect every single group here except for the insanely small percentage that can hold a WB CA line. Changing bases, equipment, seats, etc. are all hamstrung right now by terrible reserve rules, even among the relatively senior.
My point is that no one knows the next time they’ll end up in a BES they didn’t expect. Why not use some capital during the best negotiation environment in airline history to make it not suck as some insurance?
The point is that staffing the airline is a company problem, not ours. They can fix their problems with contractual improvements or find other ways to deal with hundreds of unfilled vacancies. It’s not something to waste any time negotiating, which usually means trading something else that we want. They know what it will take to encourage upgrades. It’s their problem. Let them fix it. We should be focusing on work rule improvements, pay rates, and benefits. I’m not willing to trade those things for a company problem. If they want the problem fixed, they can fix it, but the cost shouldn’t be funded by us giving up other gains.