Originally Posted by
flightlessbirds
No...this is a false narrative.
There will always be a flow of easy, broken trips for those with the desire and means to drop their schedule. This benefits RSVs (less assignment/less efficient RSV utilization), low seniority pilots (who get the pick ups of the drops of the 'credit surfers'), and the high relative seniority pilots who get the high credit/low block broken trips that are never available on PBS, regardless of seniority.
What the company wants is to be able to meter these broken trips straight to RSV assignments for free (no m7) that they view as no cost (ie against RSV guarantee...another false narrative, but I'll save that analysis for another day), forcing lineholders to fly their PBS schedules (less 'churn').
This is the big scheduling issue that we need to make sure we don't give away.
It's not a false narrative. As a credit surfer I agree with Crewdawg. There is risk that credit surfers take.
- You can get hurt or sick and get potentially get stuck with a very low pay month.
- Credit surfing only works in a certain about of categories that have an abundance of short leg traffic flow thru the base. Credit surfing is much more difficult in NYC than ATL.
- There isn't always a flow of easy broken up trip and I wouldn't advise credit surfing to anyone who only has set amount of days to work. There's been times when it seems like WWIII to get a WSnon a weekend. There have been times when you wake up on a clear blue day in ATL with no open time and before you even have a chance to have breakfast ARCOS rings and you are heading to DHing to Aruba for 24hrs.
As far as trip coverage changes, credit surfers don't scrutinize, we improvise. Hypothetically speaking, even if they flowed easy WS to RSV it would decimate reserve coverage and lead to an ever larger increase of QS/SS/GS. Credit surfing technique has already started shifting to SS/QS in lieu of WS/GS and that would further the migration even more.
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