If your point is that carryover, credit hours and pay do not matter since this is about QOL, I understand. Please ignore the following. But I think it mixes in. The willingness to vary QOL also applies to pay.

min credit hours per month is higher elsewhere. Yet we have some getting credit that Pax guys find simply incredible. They can't earn that kind of coin because they don't do deadheads. The difference from the norm is striking.

Our union noted total dues collected during 4A2b was just about the same as it was the year before. If you were on the wrong end on some bid packs you were taking up to a 23% hit. Again, not just a top 10% vs. bottom 10%. Folks clustered somewhat above and below 50% saw some big differences.

So...a significant number actually made MORE than they were making in normal times as carryover or draft to make dues a wash.

That experiment highlighted how pay even in normal years varies a great deal here. I only mention it because it's different from any other MAJOR airline. I'm not comparing us to a regional outfit. I thought you might have been at a major between between PAA and FDX. Do we really want to compare FDX to a regional?