That's a great point. If I have to drop 3 trips for family reasons, and I can make them up in 2 trips at draft or volunteer, who does that hurt? I have made up my BLG, spent more time with my family, and made the company pay me time and a half for the trips.

Using your logic, if I find myself in a sub situation or I have a Carry in Conflict, in order to bring my BLG back up to a normal BLG, I should fly the trips scheduling offers at straight pay. That doesn't make sense.

I agree that we shouldn't be flying DFT or VLT or any kind of MU to pad our BLGs. But, my point is that if I have lost credit hours from my normal BLG line, then it's silly to make it up at straight time.

An ideal situation would be to knock out your entire line with CIC or sub and then fly 2/3 of your BLG credit hours at 150% and get paid what you would normally get paid for working a full month.

That's what I'm talking about! Has anybody really sat down and figured all this out?

Look do what you need to do........

As for me.

I don't protect carry over.

I have close to 450 hours in my M/U bank.

I use all my vacation and then some.

My thoughts on this may change when I see a ratified TA.

Remember to the company it ain't about the money. Having to pay 150% doesn't punish them. Leaving Freight on the ramp does and having to pay for the loss of delivery/ mis delivery does.

So in this logic we should all drop all of our trips and not make anything up no matter what. Are advocating now that if we have to drop a trip we don't make it up for any reason?

Nope just fly your line and enjoy your family ..............if you still have one!

I agree, if they are calling for draft, then they are getting into a bind (regardless of your BLG). The time is NOW for us to stand up together and just say no more draft. Lets send our negotiating committee back holding some strong cards.

For the last 3 months I've been below the Low line CH and I have well over 600 hours in my M/U bank. Heck the M/U bank is just a company gimick to make you feel like your losing money so they can get more straight time work out of you.. just like C/O

Lets finish this thing, I'm getting tired of drinking cheap beer:D

Nothing cheap about Shiner Bock.

I think a better way to judge extra work is whether or not a pilot is protecting min days off. Doing this circumvents the issues raised above about getting drafted to makeup time lost, etc. The pilots who have less than min days off a month are the real problem children.

OK let me get this straight. I bid a line with 13 days off and it pays just over avg BLG. I am supposed to drop trips on this line to get back to min days off? What happened to just flying 100%?