Originally Posted by
finis72
Super, there is a cost associated with everybody's wish list. 75 hr guarantee is great for the 20% of the pilots on reserve,7% pay raise ! How about the 80% not on reserve ? Unless you are bottom of the seniority list reserve is a choice.I personally don't think it's fair to give a reserve 777 Capt 7% more to sit at home while I have to bust my but to get those same 75 hours. Do I think we should improve the reserve system ?, yes I do but I don't think any small portion of the company should get a windfall. Pay raises help everybody.
Sermon to follow; In my 30 plus years at the big D I have learned one very important fact of life.If you want to have QOL and good pay stay senior
in category, all the good deals go to those senior in their category. Case in point, pre BK i made a lot of money flying 76ER Capt but I had 2 buds in my class make way more and have a better QOL as MD-!! FO's ! Super, I like your posts, you have the right idea.
Windfall??? Are you kidding me? This post is a CLASSIC case of pulling up the ladder. By YOUR logic, the only ones actually that have any room to complain about reserve are the most junior guys in the company, because anybody else that has bid up should have stayed a DC9 or maddog or whatever newhire FO position they got because then they would be junior and be able to avoid reserve. It's fine if we are in a growth cycle, but in case YOU haven't been paying attention, that has not been the case for a few years, and the likelyhood of that changing anytime soon is remote. This kind of attitude is disgusting. I think I heard you say once "don't worry son, you'll be senior some day" Since you have 30+ years, I will venture to guess you are very very senior, so my advice to anybody that read the above post is to ignore it because it represents few fDAL pilots' attitudes.