Originally Posted by
tennisguru
That's a part of what is so frustrating. By and large this pilot group would be willing to go above and beyond to extrordinary lengths if we had a management team who ran a competent operation and treated the pilots with honesty, dignity, and respect. The problem is they are just looking at us as costs on a spreadsheet and can't calculate an ROI on treating us like professionals. Case in point - when they yanked PB day washing, all they saw was the straight dollar savings they were getting in payroll reductions. This summer we will have WB and NB flights cancelling because reserves have lost a major incentive to come in on their days off and salvage the operation. They'll see the costs in delays/cancellations and whatever other associated costs those items incur, but they won't connect the dots to see that their earlier PB cost savings are causing these future cost increases.
Today I was the guy who said "not worth it"
Phone rang at 0230 for a 0500 report 1 day QS. RES QS on X day. No work days left in month. 6 hours block plus 2:30 EDP. So 8:30 pay plus 2 banked PB days (1 PB, 1 PR, released after 1500)
This would have been worth 8:30 now plus at least 10:30 if I just cashed them in on a ADG trip later on.
Now? 8:30 plus 9:10 on days not 100% of my choosing anywhere from 11 to 23 months from now.
PASS.
Yeah, some 10k seniority guy picked it up as QS2, so it got covered but this is going to play out a lot this summer.
Pre no more banked PB days, just banked vacation days, I would have grabbed this no matter how craptastic the day was to have 2 PB days to either wash or do schedule manipulation later in the year.