Originally Posted by
higney85
I hear what you are saying- the stop loss for this is a limit on open time to ever hit the system after bids. Take a look at what happens to lines when we aren't staffed correctly. Trips become inefficient, days off go down, and line credits hit 90+ hours. Are you wanting to give up days off in your bid to NOT have pilots be able to pick up flying? What you are mentioning about safety I fully agree with, but you are taking it to an extreme. If a pilot needs more money and can't do it flying that pilot is now going to look for another part time job. What would you prefer- an FO who worked at starbucks and came to fly his regualrly scheduled trip, or the FO who picked up a 2-day prior to his 3 day and showed up rested?
You keep the flying going into opentime, not allowing pilots to take themselves down to 4 days off would force the company to staff. correctly. I do not see how limiting picking up flying would create inefficent pairings. It would force the opposite. It would force more efficient pairings to get more flying covered with less people. The same amount of flying will go into opentime.
So you are asking me if a person living outside their means should take a second job and be unsafe, or work more and be unsafe. How about they stop liviing beyond their means. No one forced them to make their current wage. Most FOs at 9E have been hired after 1999 so they haven't taken a pay cut. The should have know the current wage when they were hired, and if they didn't, that is again their own fault. In addition, you all are getting work rule gains and pay raises so the need to work so much more should be greatly reduced.
Like before, the reason we restrict ourselves is to protect ourselves from the people who make poor decisions. If you made a poor decision to take a job that does not pay your bills, you shouldn't make another poor decision to work down to four days off a month either.