Originally Posted by
BananaHammock
Ah yes, I remember being drenched head to toe in the old Bell 47 bubble, got dang fishbowl hahaha.
Yeah, I get there's a lot of whiners here but it just doesn't serve any of us to argue among ourselves. I just remember reading a thread where someone was just talking about what they like about NK(they seemed young and new maybe?) and the B6 guys were just being effin doosh canoes(I'm sure it's happened the other way around too...).
In any event, I think we get away with loose language here at NK just due to the sheer ineptitude of screw schedulers. I'm not super good at contract language and lawyer type stuff but I know I've made some bank a few times due to that. Pack your patience as they say, I don't know an airline where that doesn't apply.
Hopefully, we get a really good breakdown section by section (which I'm sure we will at some point) and we can both get a contract that beats the "Majors" on QoL and matches on pay.
I used to be able to drop to 65 credit at my regional and we can drop to zero here and I love that personally. I haven't worked in over a month(1 week of vacay in there), hahaha. The schedule flexibility is great, hopefully we can extend that to Reserves as well (drop, swap and proffer)
I would love drop to zero. Please fight for it on your end. I know a lot of B6 dudes on here don't necessarily see the value in it, but our current system isn't much better than OO. Makes it tough to drop/swap if our mysterious reserve grid isn't at the required level. Your system sounds much better. Not only could you build the schedule you want, but if you really needed to go on that Costa Rican vacation or be at jr's baseball game, you know you can do it. Idk why I'm telling you this.
For what it's worth, I've never flown with any douche canoes here. Everyone is super chill. I'm sure they're out there, everyone has them and, like I said, the internets brings out the worst.
How did you like the 47? I was thinking about buying one in a couple years, especially since I recently learned there's turbine versions out there in the wild?!