Originally Posted by 89Pistons

Major airline pilot contracts of the past had tighter line construction constraints, didn't have PBS, and had vacation override. We used to have a very tight window on monthly credit. I believe it was only 5 to 10 hours difference between the floor and the ceiling. On all fleets. Not the 20 hour range we have now. The lines used to be more homogenous and we had a credit cap (I believe 85 credit hours) where hours would be banked and overages would be paid in future months. Nobody got a check for 100 credit hours in a month. So rates were more of a factor back in the day and there was more incentive to continue to move up than to camp out.