Good to know thanks! That reduces the downside a lot long term.

Schedule predictability has always been available to those who want it here. With the exception of reroutes, anyone here can know their schedule WEEKS in advance by leaving it alone after PBS awards come out. Many pilots prefer that, which is fine.

I personally prefer to work less, for more money. Green slips, IA, GSWC, PB days, credit surfing, and other scheduling tricks enable that. There are plenty of pilots who fall into this group as well.

Giving the company efficiencies via second-day coverage, unlimited batch sizes, or several other examples benefits neither group and harms the latter.

And since you’re drinking the “revenue premium” Kool Aid, what exactly is our current premium over UA? How about AA? Have you flown on either of our major competitors lately? Our products are becoming increasingly similar by the day. Personally, I’ve enjoyed flying the others lately and not waiting 1-2 hours for the FAs to begin their service in calm air with the seatbelt sign off.

AA is a horrible experience all around and the angry FAs at United are not welcoming

Polaris is not that great, I prefer D1 to it.

Personally AA and UA have a Long way to go to reach us. Oh yeah the UA lounges are mostly understaffed and not as good. Given option I go centurion if available over the UA lounge product. Same goes for American
​​​

Pilots who've been here more than 10 years know this.

Pilots who've been here less than 5 years know it too, but haven't lived it.

There's a reason the "Navigating summer flying" guide on the ALPA site says "it is generally recommended that a pilot only attempt [rolling thunder] when the projected reserve percentage is less than 10% in order to ensure a sufficiently high probability of success"

Then again, who knows? Maybe the company bean counters are happy with the big green river of the past couple of years.

Having trippled down on knowing what benefits everyone on the seniority list, I am comfortable in my assessment that you actually have no idea what you're talking about. But maybe if you keep saying it over and over you can will it into fact.

You’re right. Keep fooling yourself into believing that second-day green slips are the long-term benefit of providing new efficiencies that are designed to reduce premium flying. The company depends on people like you.

And you also prove that you can't or won't read my posts. Never have I suggested your straw man argument.

Why don't you tell me how I should bid for April - does that sound ok? You don't know me, my category, my family, my schedule, what I like to fly, what I don't like to fly, how much I'd like to earn, how much I need to earn or how much notice I like to have before I start shuffling my personal schedule around. But with the confidence you have that you know what's good for the pilot group, none of that matters, amiright???

Nor have you been reading mine. I’m not talking about your personal preferences. I’m talking about your ridiculous argument that providing the company with better reserve utilization will lead to you getting more advance notice green slips over time.

I can't think of anything more ridiculous than you arguing with me about something I never never said and don't believe.

And when you quote me making a "ridiculous argument that providing the company with better reserve utilization will lead to you getting more advance notice green slips over time" (or anything even remotely close to that), I'll send a Benjamin to your favorite charity.

Choose your favorite charity.