Originally Posted by
Jersey
You seem more concerned with what the company needs are than the pilots. How did united work before they had field standby? How does every other major airline operate without field standby? You my friend are a used car salesman wet dream.
The long term best interest of this pilot group is my concern, not what makes life easy on the company. Having said that, this is a negotiation and knowing what your opponent considers important is essential. To answer your question, other companies operate without FSB by lacking some of the line holder reassignment protections that we currently have, or they simply take longer to recover. Now, please answer mine. Without FSB, what solution would you propose that both the company and pilot group would accept to cover last minute issues without giving away our current line holder protections?