Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Have the company give back every single concession we've ever given, and I'll be for removing the cap. The cap is pretty high to begin with. You have to work around 18 days/month to break it without greenslips.
Actually the key is to have great rules for the trips that you do fly.
I'm actually not in favor of removing the cap/ALV. It is a good tool for creating our schedules and does in many ways protect us from ourselves. I will even go so far as to say that the guys who usually brag about flying the most (why?) are the ones I want to fly with the least!
That said, I just think that we need to focus more intently on higher pay and better trip and duty rigs for the trips as we fly them, and not get so wrapped around the issue of how much you can fly.
And yes, we need to always be vigilant about opening Pandora's box. The company would love to staff a model where we would all be forced to fly 90+ hours a month, with reserves getting abused perpetually, etc. That is even more wrong than some of the other issues I disagree with on the other side.