Nevets
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The reason ASA guys aren't much interested in XJTs line bid system IMHO is simple. Aside from the fact that's it's nice to set all your parameters and basically pull out the schedule you want from the available pairings instead of combing through hundreds of lines looking for the ones that contain hopefully most of the things you want is.....the basic thing you like best is your ability to dump all the crap in that line you dont want, and then rebuild your schedule the way you want (which is what we aim to do initially with PBS) from a huge pot of open time. But, we know how your new management team works here. They are all about restricting your ability to control things. They will restrict your (our) ability to swap with low coverage, red arrows, restricted days, etc. They will eliminate the open time pot, whatever it takes to limit the high cost of giving more people more days off by trading 14 days off for a 15 day off schedule.. This is how they work. We've seen it. So all we're left with is line bidding, which in many peoples opinion is inferior to the PBS bidding process.
We all get the stuff about the need for less pilots and stuff and can agree on those points. I just have a hard time believing Brad and Jerry will ever agree to your swapping, dropping, LIW's and better day stuff. It's not in their DNA. If they do agree to that and it's the collective will of the bunch to go with that, then great. I'm all ears. I'll take the 20% raise while we are at it.
But their already know how your management team works. They have been forced to abide by our ability to control things: swap to low coverage days (bad day worse day trades), open time, dropping, LIWs, etc. Every time they've tried to erode any part of our contract, we've fought them and won.
You argument is baseless because the facts show that they will abide by a well written contract if they are fought from the smallest most insignificant thing (online check in) to the big things.
BH and CT even told our MEC that they didn't know how high maintenance our pilot group would be. We're slowly training them.
By the way, I don't necessarily feel PBS is bad. It's just different. From what I've been told though is that your PBS and work rules would be a concession to us. I've also been told that there is a better PBS out there that is worth taking a look at. It's too bad that your guys aren't even open to looking at different vendors, let alone our line bidding and work rules.
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