Originally Posted by
jaxsurf
Of course they don’t have a problem. The pilot group has taught the company that they are exceedingly happy to individually sell out the pilot group as a whole by solving the company’s problems for them, and in doing so, has addicted the company to running the operation via premium pay.
And these same pilots then have the gall to suggest making concessions, in their manic and unbridled desire to enrich themselves at the expense of the group as a whole. And then also have the temerity to whine and squeal on social media about how they are being ‘harmed’ by their fellow pilots, as if it’s not the natural culmination of their own mercenary efforts. But yeah, gutting the PWA is the right answer.
Originally Posted by
jaxsurf
As if making deals with crew scheduling is the same as utilizing provisions of the PWA. The pilot group’s failure to recognize that we are why we find ourselves in the current situation is laughable.
But sure, keep gobbling up those greed slips and hardening the company’s resolve to run the operation with as few pilots as possible.
Whoa, there. Calling them "greed slips" is a bit much. There are no pilots on furlough. There has always been, and
will always be Green Slips (and now, SS and QS). There has never, ever been a time when there hasn't. Not in the last 2.5 decades anyway.
You clearly disagree, but I submit the vast majority of the pilot group has a problem with both super senior 23M7 Farmers gobbling up (nearly) all the cash, as well as IA's going out wholesale, ingnoring seniority. I vehemently disagree that I am not "harmed" by a GS that was about to come to me, going out instead as an IA to who-know-where in the SL. I'm honestly shocked that anyone would argue otherwise. And regardless of whether it's actually me (there have been some that 100% would have come to me) or not,
somebody 100% was harmed. Full stop.
We can argue and disagree about whose "problem" it is to solve, but I think it's obtuse to cross our arms and stomp our feet looking solely at the company. The fact is, we may not like their solution (we certainly haven't so far), so it is
in our interest to find mutually agreeable solutions in section 6.
Hopefully, this new ARCOS automation will be effective and without hidden landmines. Hopefully, QS will (eventually) 'fix' the IA part of the problem and return that premium to an orderly seniority-based outcome. There are other iterative steps that can and should be taken, like leveling out 23M7 down the list somehow, and unifying the counter for SS/GS/QS.