Originally Posted by
skywatch
Like someone said earlier - be careful what you wish for. Those of you that seem to think you are going to get paid more (or the same) to fly less hours with the same number of days off, you might be dreaming...if you think this means working 8 hour days, like the rest of the world, then you can probably plan on two days off a week, like the rest of the world.
That is a risk in the short term, but ultimately they can't just take away all of our days off and put us on the road five days a week long-term. I would quit, unless the pay was really spectacular ($300K+) and then I'd only do it long enough to accumulate a big nest egg.
The "two days off a week like everyone else" argument does not hold water at all because "everyone else" gets to go home at night, or even at lunch, or in the afternoon if their kid gets sick.
Some people think pilots will just keep taking it in the shorts, but at some point we really will just walk away. This would be the equivalent of putting all of us on a really crappy reserve schedule with daily callouts...for life. Folks only put up with that for a finite period of time, and they only do it in order to get something better down the road.
I think the airlines know this too.