I'm sure I'm missing something here, but would it work to pay all pilots in the affected category a portion of each M7 payment at the end of each month? This would eliminate any 23M7 payment to any OOBWS or anyone else not in the category of the rotation.

Example: a 23M7 payment is due because of a an ATL 320B rotation. All ATL320B pilots share in the 23M7 payout and only ATL320B pilots. To protect seniority, 50% of the total monthly payout could be equal across the entire category, the other 50% could take seniority into account where the #1 guy gets twice the amount as the plug. This would eliminate the incentive for farmers, especially out of base farmers and hopefully lead to less chaos covering trips. Just a thought.

I am very senior and I think this is reasonable. When the company starts to blow off seniority every pilot is harmed.

Not that easy, inside 18 hours, that would put OOBWS below Reserve Coverage. I would NOT be for that.

Management must love reading this thread and all those eager to throw away parts of the contract. Section 6 right around the corner. Divide and conquer. Been going on for decades. Wake up!

Yes, let’s ignore seniority for another 2+ years.

I personally love my phone ringing 3 times in the middle of the night for an IA that got covered 30 min before the call got to me.

Or we can come up with reasonable solutions that honor seniority and fix the coverage problem.

Ummm……ALPA just did, no?

It fixes the IA problem, not the 23M7 problem.

I agree that’s something we fix in Section 6 but now is the time to come up with ideas, write resolutions, and bring those ideas to the MEC/NC.

Part of it. Doesn't appear fix the 23M7 due to the farming which seems to be an issue for most. This would help solve that issue. I'd put OBWS lower on the coverage ladder, specifically below GS, in exchange for this.

That puts it below reserve coverage, nope.

Good point