Originally Posted by
DLax85
Changing R24 to R16 also creates greater flexibility to assign trips, which will increase Reserve Utilization.
Higher Reserve utilization = Less Reserves needed.
Less Reserves needed = Less Total Pilots needed.
We wouldn’t give them their ultimate efficiency dream - a Preferential Bidding System - so they have sought efficiency improvements in many other areas.
Some will try to claim these are just “corner cases” that will only have marginal affect. The company fully understands otherwise.
I know you say marginal effect facetiously, and I add this is going to affect everyone. This will affect both CA's and FOs while creating a strictly LCA bidding club effectively killing seniority. When you kill seniority in this manner you now have PBS.
We already have LCA/Flex/ADP bidding clubs. These clubs are the worst at grabbing draft - not all but most - and then complaining about he line guy.
As PM said, we have a fiduciary responsibility and CB email the NC speak for me. Yeah right. The NC and MEC and our pilot management are only looking out for their interest not the groups or leaving this place better than they found it.
New hires run and if you have an app here forget about FedEx.