Originally Posted by
surreal1221
You're right "buddy."
But thankfully some of us consider this a profession, meaning we consider ourselves professionals. As such, we respect the hard work accomplished by our peers. Further, when our peers are down in the gutter, there is no point in kicking them while they're rolling around in filth trying to find a gig because our respective companies failed to appropriately forecast staffing needs.
It's not about being black and white, it's about ethical professional behavior and treating your fellow professional aviator with some sort of dignity and respect.
Thanks for playing "buddy."
I can't agree with you 100%, we are professionals, i fly as such. But no one has explained as to why it is unethical to pick up open time. Just stating that it is wrong doesn't have any merit.
Convince me that it isn't right. I believe if you want those pilots back here working then we need to increase our labor costs. PSA is one of the few airlines that pays 1.5X for SDO. This is how we can hit management hard. Increase labor costs and our bean counters will bring them back faster than if no one picked up open time. Remember there are still many reserves and most F/O's fly only 30 hrs a month. Captains maybe a little more. If noone picks up Open Time all that will happen is that the reserves will get abused more.