Originally Posted by
ancman
Right, but the flip side of that is the group that has never received a 23M7 payment, doesn’t understand its value, and doesn’t care about the value of a potential trade. This is the group that RG is banking on to influence the MEC enough to win a discounted deal. It’s also a small, but vocal minority.
The entire pilot group should become aware of not only the value of auto-accept/23M7, but also its secondary operational effects. As others have said, auto-accept drives trips into premium coverage that wouldn’t have otherwise gone premium. Most pilots have likely benefitted at least once, even if indirectly.
This leverage represents one of the best opportunities in recent history for the pilot group to make significant gains across the entire contract. This is not the time to sell ourselves short.
Yup. For every one top page type that has already collected 14 23M7 trips (many multi-day...and just the ones in base) this month, there is about 90% of the rest of the list that isn't getting a thing, even premium. Worse, many of them are not getting the W trips that they'd normally get (for those who play that game), and/or losing out on premium opportunities because trips are taking so long to be awarded. It's not all rainbows and dollar signs for everyone.