onetime,

I agree with you to some extent. At the present, the current process only tends to make us angry at each other. I can't understand the lowlifes that fly them, these are the same scum that will cross a picket line. They don't understand that if we work together, we have ALL of the negotiation capital. If we don't fly the trips, they assign them to reserves. The company is carrying few reserves and can't fill all of the trips. The company resorts to draft, or worse, packages don't move. And, that is when the problem gets fixed. Right now they know they can serve us any $hit sandwich and we'll choke down everyone of them....

You mention STN, KIX, etc. These pairings are worth a minimum of 17+30 hours, some considerably more. The two day versions are hard to commute to, but normally are very highly sought after. You can work a line of STN or VCP and work 2 days a week. You can't back to back these West coast trips and will take 3 full days for 16 hours of pay (which won't be trip rigged since they are two separate trips with 24 hours off between them). Make sense? My explanation stinks, but if you think enough about a line full of these trips vs a VCP or STN line you get the picture.

I am for publishing a list of DP flyers in the AOC and on ALPA emails. They can hide their schedules, but they can't hide from this acknowledgement. Some guys won't care, but it would help a few work with the team. For the guys that keep flying them, treat them as a scab or nonmember since they are sacrificing our longterm quality of life with their short term selfishness. The list needs to be from the union. I could see the company going after guys that try this on their own.

On a different front, the company decided this month to chop up the reserve lines into small blocks. I guess they don't like to pay 1 in 7. This also makes if very difficult for commuters. They have had several longer trips come up into open time late at night that they have needed to split up to get a reserve to fly it. This adds deadheads to at least two pairings which cost money. Again, it seems like they are spending dollars to save nickels....