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08-06-2016, 05:41 PM
#2803
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2013
Posts: 2,450
You're really whining about the travel benefits
08-06-2016, 06:43 PM
#2805
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2013
Posts: 2,450
Ain't you out picking up some extra flying. LOL
08-07-2016, 06:17 AM
#2806
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2015
Posts: 857
That's great for you!
Some people have to work, and can't check in at T-24 hours. Some people are on trips well outside your normal east coast time zone at T-24 hours and have to set alarms to wake up in the middle of the "night" to do so. This isn't about seniority it's about priority on your own metal.
You will see what I mean when you get here. 30-35+ years of having to fight an additional tens of thousands of people to get a seat, it will get old.
The same mentality exists at the regional level for getting aircraft. Every -900 you guys get is a EMB-190 or XYZ that isn't at mainline. Great for the regional guys, but it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Some people have to work, and can't check in at T-24 hours. Some people are on trips well outside your normal east coast time zone at T-24 hours and have to set alarms to wake up in the middle of the "night" to do so. This isn't about seniority it's about priority on your own metal.
You will see what I mean when you get here. 30-35+ years of having to fight an additional tens of thousands of people to get a seat, it will get old.
The same mentality exists at the regional level for getting aircraft. Every -900 you guys get is a EMB-190 or XYZ that isn't at mainline. Great for the regional guys, but it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
08-07-2016, 07:51 AM
#2807
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Posts: 147
If someone offered you a $19,000 pay raise on the condition you had to dump your travel benefits, you wouldn't do it? You are either incredibly lucky or incredibly stupid.
08-07-2016, 08:16 AM
#2808
Happy at PDT
Joined APC: Jan 2014
Position: EMB-145 CA
Posts: 983
Wait a minute, you consider your travel "benefits" the equivalent of twenty thousand dollars a year?! Are you insane?
If someone offered you a $19,000 pay raise on the condition you had to dump your travel benefits, you wouldn't do it? You are either incredibly lucky or incredibly stupid.
If someone offered you a $19,000 pay raise on the condition you had to dump your travel benefits, you wouldn't do it? You are either incredibly lucky or incredibly stupid.
08-07-2016, 09:48 AM
#2809
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2015
Posts: 591
You, like many, clearly don't use your travel benefits for much else than your crappy oversold commute to work. Others have seen half the world for free and sit in first class along the way.
08-07-2016, 10:09 AM
#2810
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Posts: 147
I don't commute, and I have been to almost everywhere in the country I want to see, and currently working my way down the list of countries. I use jumpseat privleges for this, which are an absolutely fantastic benefit. Non-revving isn't worth the cyberspace it takes up. Give me the money and I'll buy a guaranteed seat anywhere I want, not 'wherever looks open this week'. You'd have to be insane to give up a 20-40% raise for the oppourtunity to list your family of 4 on an oversold flight to Belize.
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