Yeah, the ideas I have here, I thought maybe listening to others in a public forum to "Fine tune" the ideas or find the flaws or find out really if these ideas are unprecedented or maybe they exist at another carrier.

You can see the big trend in my ideas is to give the senior guys (most of the time the guys that have adult kids or more flexible schedules since their kids might not be in school anymore) the ability to be more efficient with their flying if they would be willing to fly on the weekends.

Maybe they wouldn't, but it would surely move the line right now from 50-60% to get 1 weekend off to maybe you start getting a weekend or two off at 70% and those that want the extra $$ and soft time, it makes them happy too. Then they can get higher than average line (maybe worth more than 90 hrs pay) but still fall within the credit range without complicating that.

Also, cause people to want to pick up and trade into weekend trips for a small premium.

Ideas 2&3 are to give some flexibility to Junior bidders without a huge change that would take 2-3 years to implement.

If these or any ideas gain traction, then the PDR would work great, but I hate to go thru an idea as 1/15,000 pilots and people think I'm out to lunch without vetting the idea first.

I'd love to hear other ideas or scheduling practices from your previous airlines that were much better than UAL.