While that is A (legitimate) question, I don’t think it is THE question.

THE question for me is - Do we want a system where you can PD, move X days, fly the rotations you bid, occasionally get an extra X day on reserve, very rarely get rerouted, fly less on reserve than as a lineholder, preserve sick leave for when you’re sick and hold weekends and holidays off when you’re senior in your category? Or do we want to have to bid min credit every month because you can’t drop anything later, burn your APD early in the year, steal vacation from your future self to drop trips, fly to full every month on 17 or 18 days of actual reserve duty, get unstacked in the top 15%, delay upgrade because your QOL at 30% still won’t be good enough to see your kids?

The number of people affected negatively by an over-extended operation probably exceeds the number of folks being harmed by 23M7 by a factor of 10 to 1. Sadly the latter issue consumes the oxygen in the room. Don’t take your eye off the ball; ARCOS and batch sizes and blanket green slips aren’t what is ruining this career for those of us who want to work to live.

The company can fix just about all things with proper reserve manning. That tide will lift almost every boat, not to mention it’ll keep our airline as a passenger favorite and preserve our revenue premium long-term. The company’s addiction to revenue has the potential to ruin not just your career long-term, but our standing amongst our peers. That standing is what generates your profit sharing and your job security. Normalization of this scheduling chaos endangers a lot of goodness. “Fixing” how we pay pilots to execute glove saves should be both extremely expensive for the company and temporary.

Signed, someone who isn’t addicted to nor reliant on premium pay.