Flyby1206

Damn, this is getting good! Who needs bluepilots?

RiddleEagle18

I do man. (Nervously Scratches my arm) I need another hit from the crack pipe... Plus wicked good stock advice

BlueBlood

One trip less "you have to pick up"?
You don' t have to pick up anything, you just want to. Yes, it's greed.
And guess what? By doing that nothing will get better.
How can that be hard to understand?

BlueBlood

RSAs is only helping the company to come to negotiation with more power. This will translate into less time home with your family. For you and for everyone else. Too hard to understand?

BlueBlood

It makes sense? Really? That someone throws our negotiation leverage under the bus? Really?
Some guys here are not even worth a CBAs. Or to have a union.

Tom a Hawk

A safe and productive pilot group is also important to good faith negotiations.

rvr1800

Aren't you brand new here? We're the ones who sent in cards and pushed for a union and got it. What have you done? I fly 80-90 hours credit. Call that greedy I don't care. I know it's not. The RSA gives me the flexibility to drop a 3 day and pick up a day trip giving me more time at home with my wife and infant. I assume you drop your credit to 70 hours each month and don't sell PTO? Otherwise you're helping the airline understaff more than picking up an RSA once every couple months does. That's another point I just thought of, the company rarely even offers RSA's. If it was an every day thing I could maybe see the argument that it hurts staffing. But it being offered maybe once a month per my seat and base doesn't seem to me that it's really a problem.

The union has stated numerous times that the company is coming to negotiations prepared and in good faith. If that changes and the company starts playing games then my opinion about all of this will change significantly. Until that time BlueBlood I'll listen to my union not some new hire, loud mouth.

rvr1800

I also don't think guys that have high credit months are greedy. We are working under the current system we have while we negotiate our first CBA. If a guy wants to have 8 days off and credit 130 hours good for him. He's going to do the same thing with a CBA he'll just make more money.

An RSA is just a reserve day in open time as far as I'm concerned. It also pays premium rates.

BlueBlood

RSAs are coming up almost everyday system wise.
I fly as little as I can, because my time is more valuable.
I have been on property for two years.
If you would go to the union meetings, you would find out that now the negotiations meeting are not proceeding as smooth as before.
All your points are wrong.

BlueBlood

If you can't understand that by picking up RSAs you are reducing our leverage to obtain an excellent CBAs, there is no hope for you.
But I think you are just trying to justify yourself by playing dumb.