Originally Posted by
Wolf424
You’re assuming every pilot that should’ve been pay protected was. That is most certainly not the case as it requires a pilot to call scheduling and/or submit an ACE.
That may have been the case in the past, but the issue has garnered enough attention that nearly every IA is receiving scrutiny from ALPA now. Surprisingly, the company self-complies with the 23M7 pay requirement a good percentage of the time as well - before they are ever called on it.
A small number of these may still slip through the cracks, but the bottom line is the company is paying a lot more money using 23M7 than they would be if we gave them batch size concessions.