Originally Posted by
ancman
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.
Yes I agree, but you are not taking into account that the distribution of funds is completely out of wack, and that this is causing a lot of angst among the pilot group and is absolutely causing division. What the result of this will be is anyone’s guess, but the longer it goes on the more untenable it will be.