I tend to lean towards getting rid of the trigger. It is hard to judge how that would play out. You can't just extrapolate what people do today because the rule change would changes the nature of the game. First, there are a finite number of people every month who can drop their entire schedule straight up. A few more can do it by playing the swap game but again it's not like it'd be half or even 1/4 of any category. It would benefit the most senior who could clear their schedule and maybe grab 2 GS, but I could very well see a lot of that being offset by guys who don't pick up as much since they don't have to work to the trigger any more. Say someone grabs a 3 and 1 day GS. That's 42 hours of pay. Under current rules they'd still have to at least 12, and probably more like 13 days to reap the benefits of double pay. If you axe the trigger maybe some of those guys only pick up 5-6 more days to get to the 65-75 hour of pay range and they're happy with that. That would result in more broken trips that they are no longer picking up going to other pilots as nice WS or GS trips, of they go to reserves which means a nice juice 4 day goes green since there isn't a legal reserve left.

That's all just a really long-winded way of saying that we can't really predict whether eliminating the trigger will be truly good or bad overall. Certainly on a pilot-by-pilot bases there will be some big winners and losers. Maybe the NC has done some leg work on the pros and cons of no GS trigger. This of course all assumes the company would even entertain the idea at all, or entertain it at a cost the pilot group isn't willing to pay.

Edit: and if the GS trigger goes away then either SS needs to go away or there needs to be a counter like GS.