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But, you might fly nothing but B-767 trips all month. (Trip revisions, substitution, etc.) You'll be filling a wide-body seat at narrow-body pay, and The Company will pay you the difference in the middle of next month.
But since we're talking about the B-767 and we have B-757 pilots on the property, we can do B-767 flying with purple B-scalers.
We're replacing a full-time wide-body pilot with a part-time wide-body pilot.
Maybe I'm not reading the LOA properly. I haven't voted yet, so I'm definitely still in explore mode.Originally Posted by TonyC
Now, put yourself in the B-757 bid period package under this LOA where you may or may not get credit for a B-767 trip. Point to the dollar figure pay rate you'll use to compute your 1st of the month check. It's the same one, isn't it?But, you might fly nothing but B-767 trips all month. (Trip revisions, substitution, etc.) You'll be filling a wide-body seat at narrow-body pay, and The Company will pay you the difference in the middle of next month.
But since we're talking about the B-767 and we have B-757 pilots on the property, we can do B-767 flying with purple B-scalers.
We're replacing a full-time wide-body pilot with a part-time wide-body pilot.
What is the scenario where a 757 pilot doesn't get credit for a 767 trip?
How could a 757 pilot "fly nothing but B-767 trips all month" and be filling a wide-body seat at narrow body pay? Are you saying that just because he's not going to get the extra until the mid-month check the following month? We get our makeup, draft and overage next month too. Is that really such a huge issue?
I don't understand your full time wide-body vs. part time wide body comment. We can't make the company buy widebody jets. There's no guarantee that every MD-10 and Airbus are going to have a 767 in their place. If they decide to use a 757 to replace an MD-10 or Airbus along with the 727s, there's not much we can do about that.
Maybe we need to figure out how many pilots FedEx would need to staff the projected 767 fleet if we had no 757s and compare it to how many we may lose due to the dual fleet efficiencies. I have no clue what the difference would be but it seems a reasonable assumption that there probably is a loss. That said, there's no way you can reasonably characterize every 757 pilot as a part-time WB pilot replacing a full-time WB pilot.
I think I'm okay with a tradeoff to ensure that every 767 is operated at WB pay and an appropriate number of pilots can bid their complete schedule/sick/vacation at the WB rate.
The fact that a NB 757 pilot can fly a 767 trip off reserve, draft or via a revision and get WB pay seems like a positive to me. Maybe I'm not thinking about this right but, I'd rather be a part time WB pilot than a full time NB pilot. That's probably the juniority talking.
As I said, I'm still undecided. There are some good questions still unanswered. Hopefully the Wed night webcast will be worthwhile.