Originally Posted by
sweephisleg
It’s both our problems. There are pilots for whom that trip might have worked for them who as it stands cannot pick it up. I 100% agree there is blame with the company but there are pilots also being harmed and it’s disingenuous to say we have nothing to do with it.
Being able to pick up flying over vacation would work better for a lot of individual pilots as well. But we can’t, because a ban on flying over vacation is better for the PWA value and pilot group as a whole.
Freely allowing the company to pay out 200% less for a trip because it “works” for a junior pilot is insane. We would literally be handing money back to the company before entering what are likely to be contentious section 6 negotiations. Many of the problems you describe may get worked out in section 6, but for a price.