Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
I think that is not true, and certainly won't be true the longer this goes on (on the domestic side at least; it is still fairly rare in the WB categories that aren't 7ER). It is not just the "farmers" getting a whole lot of 23.M.7 money for doing nothing that is going to create a lot of resentment. It is the fact that many mid-seniority pilots who used to get GS fairly predictably no longer can, while IAs and 23.M.7 payments go out to other pilots that aren't them. DALPA knows this. Everyone knows that the current status quo is not what was ever envisioned or desired at the negotiating table.
I fall in the category of upper middle seniority that could count on easy 2 day GS. Fly to trigger, add 21 hours GS pay. In October I managed to get IA that I was trying to GS. November no GS, but did manage a SS. We’ll see what December holds, but I haven’t done a GS since August. You used to see a trip coverage report of all G’s once reserves ran out. Now it’s all IA’s.