dakovich
Well-Known Member
so whats typical line-value at your airline? i ask because there has been discussion about line value adjustments to mitigate possible furloughs at my place. taking it from the mid-high 80's and making it in the mid 70's. the union has balked at this saying it is in essence a round-about-way to enact a 7-10% pay reduction for our pilot group. i actually miss the days of 70ish hour lines. althought i got paid less, i had way more time at home. back then there was plenty of open-time, so if you wanted to make your line worth more it was pretty easy. open-time for the past year has pretty much been non-existant. be it that there just wasn't open-time or that it was being withheld from us, who knows. they also have not been allowing (as it seems) any changes during our Schedule Adjustment Window, even if the changes are legal and appropriate. now, back to the line value thing. i understand the 70ish hour lines don't affect the more senior guys because they can bid the more productive lines and get plenty of days off while maintaining a high line-value. so a decrease in line value will effect them more. but for the rest of us, the other 80%, the lines are so unproductive it means 11-12 days off per month when line values reach into the mid-high 80's. so when i heard the possibility of 75 hour lines i was all about it, because i'm all about the QOL. discuss