Originally Posted by
captscott26
If you don't know the answer to #1, then YOU are the dim bulb.
The problem here is that there is no concrete answer. The "labor" answer is that the OT flier is hurting someone else. The "200%" answer is that is does not.
The SWA answer is that it does not. I choose the SWA answer because I make $150K a year to Captain a 145 seat bird and my bud the SWA Captain makes over $300K to drag around only 137 revenue producing seats.
SWA has straight time OT. 150% OT and more. I think Voluntary JA does pay 200%, BTW. I don't hear
ANY pilot at SWA beotching about another SWA pilot hurting another pilots income. Senior lance Cpt's not withstanding.
You believe that it hurts you. I showed a concrete example of a carrier that it works to everyone's advantage. But I'll concede that the answer, for any management other than Herb Kelleher/Colleen Barrett/Gary Kelly, is somewhere in the middle.