There is a point where the increase in pay is worth the sacrifice in QOL although the 330 has long trips which would still result in good time off. The 767-400 also has the increase in pay however the trips do not create a good QOL for me personally. Also we used to have block and reserve so you were only on reserve if you bid it. Not the case now. Like I said there are 12000 different opinions on what is the best deal for each of them.

Shifting gears a bit:

I put in a "swap with the pot" for a trip next month. when do they run those in the PCS system. I thought i read somewhere they run them every 6 or 12 hours. it is for a trip the last week of july. Thanks!

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So again, I'm going to post something about our ground ops.

Disreguard. Not the correct forum. Thanks.

The most junior NWA pilots also got some of the biggest raises. Not only did they move up to DAL rates, but our first officer percentages of captain rates were much higher than NWA, especially in the first few years. Many junior NWA pilots got raises above 20% just coming to the DAL contract.

The company had agreed to a much better contract back in February of 2008. The NWA MEC wanted to delay the deal so they could get arbitration for the seniority list. That was their choice. The second round had a worse contract for everyone, but the NWA pilots took much bigger hits because they were getting the majority of the benefits in the first round. Trying to blame Lee Moak is just intellectually dishonest. The contract was agreed and voted on by your MEC and your pilots, if you did not get to vote, then you knew that when you were hired.

Your benefits were set in that contract. Your pay rates now are more than double my B-Scale rates while my captain's pay is less than when I got hired. Life sucks. Everyone would like to point out some little section of the contract that needs to be fixed just for them. If you get your issues fixed, then I get my issues fixed too. Then everyone else gets their issues fixed. Wait that's what happens in Section 6 negotiations. Until then, you are not special, your issues mean the same as mine, I just spend less time crying about them. The whiny wheel does not get the grease, no matter how much they whine.

The first PCS run is the 20th at 0700 I believe. Info like that is in the PBS bid package.

Thank you!

Some of those were "NWA only" limitations, and no longer apply...

So I just got called for an IA for a 3 day. Really? You've ripped through the reserves already?

Guess ya better start those classes a little sooner. I may have done it if they gave me GS pay for the WHOLE thing, but since I'm on reserve tomorrow they only want to give me GS pay for today. Looks like they'll be cancelling another couple of flights. :rolleyes:

I was thinking of down bidding to the A320 to recapture some seniority. Good idea or bad?

I'm DTW so I'm not too sure about SLC, but a CA I was flying with is mid 4K's on system wide seniority and that would hold him a line with weekends/holidays off in MSP. In SLC.......it got him RESERVE.