Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
There is no cost to company for using quick slips vs GS.
Apart from 3x cost, removing GS trigger is a pretty big gain.
Most months, I'm a drop to min and pickup to trigger kind of guy. If I get a couple quick slips now though, I can make just as much money without hitting trigger, and won't bother with WS. Huge QOL win. Many more in my boat and I'm sure open time will be left with more trips now, forcing more premium. That's a big win.
Originally Posted by crewdawg
but hopefully with c2026 we can move to 1 premium counter for GS, QS, and SS.
At the very least it should be the same counter as GS.
That's going to be a hard sell. If I worked my way up to GS trigger, I'm not wasting my G#1 on a 1 day trip. A lot of pilots set 2 or 3 day minimums. I've taken plenty 1-day IAs with god awful report times, since hey why not, no counter and no trigger needed. I'll treat QS the same way, a catch-all for any GS I wouldn't otherwise take.
If you want to combine them all into one counter, we would have to implement the idea floated in the survey about the counter being tied to number of premium days, not trips. That I could get behind, because it makes more sense.
Originally Posted by CRJphlyer
Crew Scheduling will still continue to do whatever they want. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.
Good, let them. It costs 400% now.
If you think this theoretically makes arbitration worse, it doesn't. QS simplifies what is currently a huge mess. Under the old system, good luck explaining to an arbitrator that we were getting called for "inverse assignments" that weren't actually inverse or subject to 23.R and used to be for people getting caught on the jet bridge for extra flying but now actually get proffered through unlimited batch phone calls awarded in hold music priority order unless you called ahead and undercut everyone while someone in another base gets paid multiple times during a week they're not flying.
What type of negotiating gain were you looking for? 500% slips? 600%? This win was way more than I was expecting we could get before section 6. Now pilots won't be distracted by it or willing to concede anything in C26 for it. That's the more important part, IMO.