Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
There’s a reason it goes to a 4 month upgrade. The ability (or lack thereof) to make bank is one of them. 20-22k is not that much anymore for a major CA.
And you’re on the 717 right? So your experience of constant green slip galore is not going to be an accurate picture for other fleets.
Just checked AS Captain systemwide this morning: ZERO premium trips. I wouldn’t want to have to rely on the company being short and having a premium trip as the only way to make more money on reserve.
Let's unpack this a bit... It goes junior because everyone has their own wants and desires be it schedules money or something else and nobody knows why. Before you say it's because it's so awful then it would just go unfilled like it does at United which is an entirely different debate. My fleet depending on month/time of the year like the others is highly variable. As of now based off friends in every narrow body fleet minus the 220 there's enough GS's going around if someone wants one. Now maybe not every base but there's no shortage of it at this moment. Regardless relying on premium pay to make ends meet is a fools errand so on one hand you say 20-22k is not that much anymore and then in other posts you wax poetically about how the Alaska rate is plenty and why should anyone cry about not getting what everyone else has etc etc.