Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I agree 100%. I sit reserve and will until I decide to move and commute. I like the way you think T.
How about SC are pay no credit from the get go.
I do like your idea that we could bid for three, or lets say two, and then the rest are pay no credit. That said, what will the credit be since you are technically still getting paid for that reserve day. This would be assigned as premium pay. I am sure they will want airport standby for this......
I don't know what they will want. From a certain perspective I don't care. Yeah yeah yeah I know.. we don't live in a vacuum.. everything has a cost, yada yada yada... the point is that reserve has been (and I use this loosely) abusive and abrogative of seniority in a seniority based system, and needs to be repaired if not torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Pay no credit for SC from the get go is a little ambitious, but I think you'd see reserve go senior again if that were the case. At any rate, I know there are several solutions out there like bidding on a SC line for better line values and things like that. I just know that the current system is unsat.