Dune
Further to your post, if you look at our senior captains, some of who have been here 17 years, the overtime pay is a paltry fraction of their contracted rate. I agree with you completely. Until they come up with a proper overtime rate that is transparent and tied to our contractual rate, they can bash it.
Pissedoffpilotek
You do whatever you have to do, but dont fool yourself into thinking you are having a win by doing that.
Do you think it is a coincidence that you get offered a JFK and swap it with a ccu etc?
Of course it isn't.
Scheduling know they arent going to get someone to go to CCU on a day off, so they give a JFK or similar to the guy on his day off while the CCU you traded gets thrown at some poor bastard on reserve. So when next you are on reserve and get called to go to Hyderabad at 2am,think of your mate who has swapped it for a JFK.