How can it be possible for an open time system where they call you for every single trip (if you want) to be more flexible?
By letting you see the trips in advance and decide which one you want, on your own schedule, instead of answering the phone and having to decide right there. Half the time I can't take a scheduling call based on what I'm doing. I would much rather have a nice long process to examine and bid on trips. Missed phone calls are a bear. I especially like the option to bid on VJA.
The drawdown of the lance program, IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER, has any chance of increasing your time in the left seat. It certainly could allow you to be a co-pilot for longer though.
This is simple math, and you need to review yours. Fewer lances equals more captain hard lines. Fewer lances equal fewer FO hard lines. Spending less time in the lance program means you spend less time as an FO and more as a captain.
ELITT "pounding" is flexibility.
It's flexibility to the lance.
To the rest of us FOs, it equals net zero for the whole month, reducing any possible flexibility--especially for a weekday flier. Your are using a flexibility program to change catagories. You use my ELITT flexibility to change from FO to captain making my net zero a permanent zero. This absolutely sucks for every person that isn't a lance.
You obviously don't know the system or you would be doing more than 120 as a senior FO.]
Does it sound like I don't know the system? Not only do I know it, I know what the effects are. It's some sort of great mystery to most why net zero is always zero on the FO side, even when we're over-manned and getting 85 trip line totals. It's because of Lances changing catagories, cramming ELITT with duty periods. We'll see a bit of a dropoff when the first year guys go to second year pay in September. But you lances will continue to pound on ELITT until you can hold a captain line.
The true answer is that you as a lance should be allowed to bid a line with zero trips on it and then suck up all the captain trips you want. But without that option, using ELITT to change from FO to captain is bad for everyone--but you.
You need to direct your frustration at Gary Kelly. He is the one who has chosen to codeshare while reducing SWA flying
I don't have any frustration, as I said, I'm not worried about near-international because it is only equal to a handful of airplanes. Calgary isn't LGA, or MSP, or BOS.
But RJs to Lubbock, BHM and CRP, that worries me.
As you know SWA is required to grow by 5% a year if we do ANY codeshare. That sounds better to me than the TA.
Not true. Do I have to post it? It says that if they don't meet the growth requirements, they have to meet with the association to discuss possible remedies. Considering the fact that SWA won't be out of compliance until 1) they actually start codesharing and 2) January of 2010 comes, I challenge your SL32 and toss it back at you. "Meet and discuss."
Meeting and discussing the painful rear entry is different than the TA's no domestic code share.
At least admit that the restriction on no domestic code share was a good thing in the TA, it sounds silly when you say that SL32 is better.
