Originally Posted by
Stan446
How incensed are you at people getting something for free? Its great when YOU benefit but when its other people getting paid for free its wrong. If we were to look at any job outside of the airline industry and saw people getting paid to not work we would be amazed. If the company wants the student lines so bad, make them pay. But don't be whining about how guys should be paid to do nothing.
Stan - I'll assume you read all the posts in this thread, but just in case I'll ask the same questions to you...
Do you think we should apply those same rules when BOTH pilots are bumped from training?
….or when a change of gauge occurs?
…or when a trip is revised to return to a pilots home domicile early?
I’m confident you know pilots are paid 100% for “not working” in all those instances.
When any pilot bids any line they are responsible for flying that line - if the company chooses to remove them for any reason, that’s a choice the company makes willingly. The pilot has zero control and zero choice.
The “this is only a bit of a concession” mentality is a very slippery slope — and exactly how you boil the whole frog slowly.
Additionally, you are ignoring the second and third order effects of those FOs not being awarded any line at all, and being forced to rebuild their whole month in the View/Add Window.
The effects will be far greater. Please understand the whole process and ripple affect upon all FOs below.
Surveys have been taken. Focus Groups have been held. Student Lines made the list of major concessions this pilot group doesn’t want to see.
Will our NC & Union Leadership stand fast?
It’s a fair question we need to ask prior to TA1.1/2.0….not afterwards.
In Transparency, Integrity and Unity (for Everyone),
DLax