Originally Posted by
highfarfast
I have myself made a concious decision to work less going forward. Decided I'd rather work less for the same money than work the same for more money. I regularly trade down in value to work less days and/or avoid working days I'd rather not work.
But I haven't ran into anyone else doing the same. Everyone I know and everyone I fly with, to a person, talk about how they're maximizing their pay and what their pay is or some such.
I’m with you on that however I’ve found that most pilots stop helping out with staffing the longer negotiations take. Then, like you mentioned, once there’s an agreement it changes. If you look a bit closer at the new agreements a lot of the vac soft time was put off till dos +. That’s no accident. Plus the average number of accrued vac days annually is down substantially. Sick time needs to be accrued to be used and sick sell back at retirement helps in the short/medium term with staffing. It’s win win language. As others mentioned longer term staffing formulas might change a bit but right now they’re probably close to what they were before any new agreement.