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I'm a junior line holder and don't like to fly more than 10 days per month. Since I'm too junior in my seat to build a good schedule with PBS, my MO is to drop down to as little flying as I can, then pick up a trip here and there to get me to where I want to be. It's been pretty nice, actually. Obviously all that is going to come to an end for me, and I think I'll likely go back to bidding reserve and combine that with judicious use of sick-if-needed. But to your point, I do agree that we'll never see a contract as long as the company can fly the schedule and train the newhires. I don't begrudge premium either, but between even our hardcore union guys gobbling up all they can and all the folks stepping up to get abused as check airmen, why would the company give us anything more than what we have?Originally Posted by PRS Guitars
Maybe an unintended consequence will be that it’s tougher for pilots to reduce their schedule and pick up premium. Less people picking up premium will hurt the company. I’m not anti PM, but until the schedule gets stressed continuously, we aren’t going to see improvements.
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I was at one of those crew room TTS training/Q&A thingies yesterday and they said it was true. If you want to reduce your schedule, it has to be done during the batch process. With all the premium out there, I don't see a lot of folks trying to trade into bigger trips for straight time, so I have a feeling that I won't have much luck going smaller.Originally Posted by sanicom3205
is this 100% confirmed? I read the language and it wasn’t exactly clear to me