You posted before my edit so... Your calculation is guesswork, mine was from data. Is there a value ALPA assumes? Is that going to change if/when the company implements tech? The negotiating capital you are banking on is speculation at best. Please, please show me some concrete numbers and their calculations. Why is this so hard?

You're wildly optimistic. Sick doesn't necessarily generate a last minute call out because people can be out sick for more than one trip, and you're scooping up a ton of people who are out short term waiting out their sick leave on the way to on disability, so their time gets dumped into OT way ahead or goes into the PBS bid due to sick/shadow. I went years between sick calls (bad luck getting sick on days off), and my guess is most people do as well. People are pretty good about commutes, and other causes for last minute trip burps. I can't remember the last time I had a trip disrupted outside an IROP or reroute.

Rather than making a wild guess at numbers and passing them off as facts, why don't you call your rep and ask. They can probably find what the real number is.

Is it enough for Delta to give a retiree a Porsche GT3 if they leave here with their sick bank untouched…

That's not what's actually happening in real life. #1 gets 23M7 and the rest of the entire category plays "who can pick up the phone first". This is literally worse than first come first serve OT (and before you think about it, no that's not me advocating for it)

And no it's not watering seniority.

What’s the limit if any on 23m7 payments? I saw numerous people getting 3 or 4 during the month going through the lists.

Do you have to have auto accept on to get a M7 payout? I thought just having the appropriate slip in and being the right one in line was sufficient even without auto accept.

You’ve made some good arguments here.

This one is laughably poor. Sorry, it’s true. In effect, assuming the equivalent of every single pilot getting 5% of their pay from 23M7?? (Not to mention that avg pay is 300 grand?? BTW, 15-20% of a category is reserve)

Not even close. The first bold is ironic.

I think if you reject or ignore a trip awarded to you via auto-accept, it should automatically delete all of your PCS slips. That would force more people to put in legitimate slips vs farmers. It would speed up coverage too. (You are always free to re-put slips in)

absolutely not.

once again this is a company problem...what are they going to give us to speed up THEIR coverage?

The 23M7 "farmers" don't have to use auto-accept. They just need to have a slip in.

This is such a weird debate, led by lack of transparency on the company side. The pilot vs pilot witch hunt on auto-accept is insane.