GuppyWN
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Except in this contract, the open time was going to be a ton more flexible, the drawdown of the lance program was going to let me be a captain longer and an FO shorter, ELITT wouldn't have continued to get pounded by lances and first year FOs, so ELITT would have actually started working on me and to top it off, there was no domestic code share allowed.
Where was the problem?
Let me be the first to start calling names. Sheardshaft, you are near-sighted.
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?
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.
ELITT "pounding" is flexibility. Besides, as a lance, you can't ELITT for more days than you already own. I put every single trip in giveaway right up through my upgrade. I didn't care if I had a 3 day that paid 24.0 it was going bye bye. I used ELITT and TTGA and the incredibly flexible open time system to do very well for myself. You obviously don't know the system or you would be doing more than 120 as a senior FO.
You need to direct your frustration at Gary Kelly. He is the one who has chosen to codeshare while reducing SWA flying - which, BTW, means he will not meet the requirements of SL32. 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.
ciao,
Gup