Ok, once again, lets go over this....
The only pilots who are paid more than what they fly in a month are reserve pilots. Pilots who are assigned a line of flying (approx 80-85% of all pilots) ARE PAID FOR WHAT THEY FLY. Period. Not one penny more. And you had better believe that the company has invested in an entire computer platform (CATS) to accurately track what they fly.
Reserve pilots must be on call approx. 20 days a month. This, in the case of a long call reserve, is 24 hours a day. Short calls are on duty for 15 hours a day. Why are these pilots necessary, you ask? Simple. If you, or I, call off sick from our job, our work is either covered through overtime, or by our co-workers working short. This option is simply not availible for flight operations. Crew members are EXTREMELEY limited on how much overtime they can work and how much rest they are required to have. And I have never seen a flight go out without 2 crewmembers in the cockpit, so working short is not an option (Though nothing would suprise me with this USAirways management team. )
So in order to maintain some semblence of a reliable operation, RSV pilots are required. If you had to be by a phone 24 hours a day, ready to fly up to 4 days away from home at a moments notice, wouldn't you feel like you should be compensated for that? I'm a crew scheduler. I'm the jerk that calls these guys out at 0200 for an 0500 departure. I would not want their life.
Finger pointing and petty jelousies are not going to get USAirways out of its current spiral. The working groups of this company need to examine the real root of the problem.... look to the people who have no clear idea on how to save this company other than eliminating your job or taking your pension.... Dave and his merry band of lackeys.