Originally Posted by TED74

Indeed it will. All those trips I dropped went to pilots who improved their own schedules by picking them up or by swapping into them.

Every pilot action has consequences good and bad when you consider reserves who want to fly, reserves who don’t want to fly, line holders who want to fly 100 hours and line holders who want to fly 50 (or zero).

Picking and choosing which parts of the contract you actually support vs which parts you begrudgingly support is a fool’s errand. Almost every single provision affects your fellow pilots in positive and negative ways. Extreme and uncommon cases like flying green with pilots on furlough merit discussion when the time is right, but this nonsense about pressure against OOBWS is a circular firing squad. Use your seniority how you see fit, and let your union brethren do the same. If you don’t like the levers we can pull, change them.