Originally Posted by
CBreezy
With enough seniority. In order to reliably credit surf, you need to be a local and be able fly on a moment's notice. But you also have to be able to get rid of enough trips to be able to credit surf. You always make it sound like everyone can do it and that's disingenuous at best.
And, for pretty much any premium pay, we have a specific leveling mechanism that ensures fairness. The same should apply for all premium pays. ALV+15 is not a premium leveling mechanism
Let’s make a long story short and say you are correct. That means a very small subset of live in base pilots will be able to fill their schedule with SS. Again, if the majority of the pilot group fells that strongly about it the Union will get the language changed. Alas, we see how well the anti OOBWS campaign went. There are plenty of commuters that credit surf. A 320 or 73N commuter can drop their schedule and roam the operation in search of OOBWS with DHs on one or both ends. Multiple ways to skin the cat
There will always be something in the contract some see as “unfair”. Some don’t see inefficiencies in the PWA as “fair” or “unfair”, they just see the PWA a a puzzle to that can be solved in a time efficient way. Optimize Your Schedule as the Union eloquently puts it. Credit Surfers don’t scrutinize, they improvise.