Originally Posted by
rickair7777
A few golden days per year is fair enough, and common enough. But two a month? Fairly senior peeps would very quickly get only one weekend off a month because most juniors would use their GD's for a weekend.... the b-day or soccer game on the third Tues of the month sounds nice but anybody without kids is going for weekends. And a lot of the folks with kids.
ME3 doesn't do nearly as much of that stoopid seniority stuff... for example EVERYBODY gets a month or two of reserve each year.
That's a bit different, it's not unreasonable to force seniors to show their hand in advance, not doing so is just laziness. Kind of like they have to bid in advance for those weekends and holidays off... they can't just re-assign their trip to a junior lineholder at the last minute.
No. Seniority is the only way the system should work. If you wanted better seniority, you should have been hired sooner. In 15 years you will have better seniority.
I will work for United for 28 years, and retire with 4000 pilots senior to me.
Two GDOs a month would be great. As long as they are awarded in seniority order.