Originally Posted by
ewrbasedpilot
I've been watching open time at CAL, and for the whole month there's only been around nine or ten trips for 737 CA's. The sad (I mean REAL sad) thing is that the lines are being built around 72-75 hours, and yet I've seen some pilots with line values over 108 HOURS!!!! This means they are grabbing everything they can to line their pockets. Why our union REFUSES to call these scumbags on the carpet and tell them they are hurting everyone (mostly the 147 furloughed pilots) is beyond me.
Hopefully the pilots at SWA handle this a bit more stearnly..........
1) I think it has been said before that the RLA forbids unions from advocating "not working" in any form. I don't know that for fact, but it would make sense.
2) Are you saying that SWA pilots should not be picking up open time, so as to bring the guys out of the pool quicker? With this economy, and if there's no one on furlough (which there isn't), that idea would be a tough sell to most pilots.