Even this process will reduce the total need for FOs. If an LCA trip is eventually NOT filled with a student, they will merely fill it with a Reserve pilot

Read the Sep SIG Notes - look how they are now assigning (non-sick) Open Time trips to R24 guys well in advance, to prevent other pilots from picking up trips and getting paid

They want Reserve Utilization way up - it’s a sunk cost to them

Precisely why the SIG is now suggesting guys Proffer trips rather than Drop Trips

So let’s review some of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd order effects of Student Lines:

- FO is blocked from preferred line (possibly home town)

- FO must fly a lesser choice line to get paid

- More FOs picking up more trips, and more of the the very best trips, during View/Add window - possibly before more senior FOs, who were awarded VTOs

- Less trips in Open Time

- Higher Reserve Utilization for ALL Reserve Types: A, B, R24/R16 when students are eventually not assigned

- Higher Reserve Utilization means harder to drop/move R-days…..and harder to drop trips

- Less flexibility and QOL for all

- Less FOs needed / Less Hiring

Delta Mgmt tried to block FOs from being paired with LCAs within their PBS System during their first TA back in 2015. The Delta NC & MEC initially agreed. The Delta line pilots said “No Way”and voted that TA down, and that language was removed during TA2.0

The company is constantly seeking ways to subjugate seniority and become more efficient. They don’t like hard line bidding - they want to force more pilots into the View/Add & VTO process - aka “Back Door PBS”

WE LOUDLY Communicated - NO PBS during our 2015 negations

WE need to LOUDLY Communicate - NO Student Lines now!

This pilot efficiency concession was never surveyed and the actual effects were never revealed. Luckily, it’s an easy fix.

Just say NO - we’re keeping current CBA language & process when any & every pilot gets bumped by the company for student training

In Transparency, Integrity & Unity (for Everyone)
DLax