Originally Posted by
JTwift
In my opinion, saying that junior people on reserve aren’t worth negotiating capital, or we shouldn’t be using reserve to fix our unfilled Captain positions is missing the whole point.
if reserve were truly built correctly, it SHOULD go senior! Who wants to be 63 years old and flying 90 hour lines? You should (ideally) want to bid reserve and barely get used. Bid reserve and have actual days off. Bid reserve and not get hammered with endless, random short calls/FSB. Bid reserve and yet still have some semblance of predictability in your life.
right now, none of those are true.
MRGS - Make Reserve Go Senior!
I don’t think that the argument is being made that junior people aren’t worth negotiating capital, but that the main emphasis should be made where we will spend the majority of our careers. Reserve rules definitely need significant improvement, but there’s also much more to a contract. Also, not everyone is flying 90 hour lines. Look at the awards. I’m on the 737 and my seniority range is averaging 73-80 hours in all bases. My average is right 77 hours per month and never fly red eyes. It’s not all doom and gloom out there.