Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
THESE AREN’T IA’s. They are 23.M.7’s coded as IA’s. Junior pilots are never supposed to get premium trips before senior pilots. NEVER. A real IA is forcing a junior pilot to work when nobody wants to do trip. That means everyone in category has turned trip down as a GS and OOBGS. There is zero advantage to being junior. I’m tired of junior pilots thinking they are entitled to premium first because they are junior.
But they are IAs. The contract doesn’t require every GS and OOBGS to be turned down before IA. It only requires that IF the company chooses not to use 23.M.7.
I’m 100% in agreement with you that there shouldn’t be any advantage to being junior. Currently, there is.
The contract is being executed as written. Language matters, not “we always intended this to be applied this way.”