Originally Posted by
iaflyer
I don't think trip coverage is going to work like you think it will - how do you think CS will get to QS?
A QS is just a step they'll skip to when time is critical. They'll almost always still pay a 23m7 pilot, it just the trip will go out to the senior person who raises their hand rather than a free for all that the IA process is right now.
Yes, that's a good thing but it's not going to change the trip coverage sequence.
They can't skip QS except for emergency trip coverage, and that is a very specific circumstance. That's when someone breaks their arm on a layover, and is in the hospital, and there's one departure out of a one-flight-per-day station where they just happen to have someone who lives there. It's not for routine trip filling out of a crew base. Even if they have that circumstance, then they're paying the original M7 pilot, plus the pilot who would have received the QS.