Originally Posted by
kronan
What airline gives 60+ days of paid vacation?
And, yes, I think they'd rather have some productivity versus no productivity.
Look at how the early (and excessive) retirement pension plans for are destroying CAs budget.
Biggest number I think reading was full retirement pay after 30 yrs of public service and a pension plan in the mid-90s.
Drawing pension pay for longer than you actually worked at the company is a great deal for the worker, sucks huge for the employer
I work for Northwest Airlines. Wait. I work for Delta Air Lines. But when I was at NWA I did see pilots with 60 +vacation days. I'm sure it wasn't accrued in one year, but most likely the pilots were on LTS or had training during their vacation the year before. I don't know off the top of my head what our max accruals are/were.
But, that's not the point. Older pilots have a lot more vacation, sick time, and the savy to game the system, which costs the company as well. I had the director of flight ops on the jumpseat one time and he told us that at that point, over 60% of the over 60 FE's in ANC were on long term sick. So, they had to carry a higher staffing formula up there to get the trips covered.
So, I'm not going to guess what management wants anymore. If you think that's what they want I'm sure an argument can be made that they do. That's how management works. It's always something and we just go along with it.