Originally Posted by
rickair7777
But still it's fundamentally a seniority based industry.
What's the fix? Rotate assignment choice, take turns being #1 to bid? Maybe dual seat qualify everybody and rotate between left and right seats? Start all new hires at the top of the list and then you become less senior as you age?
The problem with any big structural changes is that the senior people already payed their dues and are not going to give up the QOL they earned over decades. Yeah I know you can trot out some grandad who got hired at as a legacy at age 24, upgraded at 26, never furloughed, 3 months total lifetime reserve, yada, yada but that's not the lived experience for the vast majority of the people in the industry.
What's the proposed fix? That's remotely tolerable to the people who will vote on it?
We could start with applying the same circadian swap limits and other fatigue mitigation rules to reserves that line holders get during the PBS award. Then staff enough reserves that they can actually cover the schedule while applying those rules in practice. A WOCL override would be of immense help as well.
PS....$880 million on stock buybacks this year. Any complaints about cost of this basic safety measure from the company is actually insulting.