You have to also compare the right figures. I do not think you get the 3.5hr pay for a MCT (for example) now......only Sched block time. Will not effect a lot of flights, but it will hurt in the bottom bid groups. Have had a look and the results for me are mixed..as I have had a few operate one way, dead head home, PPC and leave things that have tilted the balance to the old system.
If the rostering stays the same..we may be in front....but there is some warning of things being to good to be true. I see a compulsion to stop guys getting too many days off, and the fact that reserve is free a big worry.
Once heard a fella say he loved this job so much he would do it for free...well he has got part of that wish, as his PPC now is.
We will not know the full impact of this pay cut until we see how they use these rules when making the rosters.
Don