Not to mention that it would be a extremity expensive item to negotiate if you could get the company to even consider it. Our contract already favors seniority more than some others. No GS trigger would take that into absurdity.

Having a trigger has nothing to do with dropping trips. If anything, not having a trigger would make it worse as the Uber senior pilots drop their prime weekday trips via the swap board or first PCS run.
Also, If you can’t drop trips due to coverage then you are most likely already at the trigger.

Agreed. Which is why this whole discussion is academic. And totally moo :p

Though I do like the idea of lowering the bank threshold, that is in the same category.

Does anyone know the rationale for premium pay not refilling the bank?

Not exactly sure what you are asking here. Only credit (above 80 hrs I believe) can be deposited to the bank. I think that is limited to 20 hours/month. Since greenslips are pay/no credit, it’s impossible to put GS time into bank. As to why greenslips are pay/no credit.......I have no idea.

Denny

I think Denny hit the nail on the head probably. For the same reason they don't want GS counting toward reserve buckets, they also don't want it to count toward bank repayment. It's all about incentives, and toward what...

If GSs were pay and credit, might that limit you similar to WS pickup limits. Then pilots couldn’t wear themselves out totally!

Plus, from the company's perspective, GS pay is pay you didn't "work" for. You actually have to work straight pay over 80 hours to be able to refill the bank, so they get much more usage out of you than if you were able to repay with "bonus" pay hours.

The bank is modestly useful (I've been minus in the bank for 15 years!) but it really stems from the pre-PBS days of line of time bidding. Back then we had a "cap" vs the ALV, and you were NOT paid for any time over the cap. So if the cap were 75 hours, and you flew 78, you were only paid 75 and that extra three hours was carried forward to the next month as "bow wave." There were lots of iterations and tricks you could do with the bow wave, and I won't go there as that was 15 years ago. However, pilots always had the option of depositing the bow wave into the bank, vs letting it carry to the next month.

So...cap usually lower than today's ALVs, and anything over the cap was bow wave/bank deposit, and it was a much more frequently used tool.

Okay Doris.....now tell us about "Spill back" in 15 seconds or less before you move on to your next topic. 🤣 (Her Indoc brief was 50 minutes of the proverbial "throwing cooked spaghetti at the wall hoping something sticks." Lots of 30 foot stares in a 20ft room after that experience).