I would argue against that. People sitting on their couch shouldn't be collecting value driven by those working on their days off. Award the people with slips in who are working on their days off. Give all the extra value to them. Paying a higher emergency premium to the pilot flying the trip addresses this perfectly.

For the sake of discussion I'm also going to argue against that. Maybe a hot take but if someone is in place and available for a short notice white slip, they are also in place and available for a quick slip. QS surfing is the new credit surfing and it's glorious because there is no QS trigger. Short notice availability should always lean towards premium if we are under-staffed. It's the price the company pays for having less pilots on the seniority list. Now that most short-notice trips go to QS instead of IA, anyone on the list has access to them in a fair manner that both respects seniority and has a leveling mechanism. When the Air Line is running hot, such as now, you have 17k seniority dudes hitting Q#3 in multiple categories. If things ever cool off and the QS become rare, you get your pick of WS again. I would also add I almost never get a QS that I didn't get called for as a WS first. It's extremely rare. They are at least waiting until the OOB step to run QS.

Plus I think it's perfectly acceptable to have less WS and more premium going out while they're running us hot. At least it's leveled now so anyone can partake instead of the old IA free for all. Advocating for more single pay WS to go out is like letting pilots voluntarily work over vacation and would drive pilot efficiency up while giving the air line free relief on their staffing problem. We don't want to go in that direction. Make them pay their way out of it via more premium and/or more hiring. No easy relief. Profits are still flowing.