Originally Posted by
1234
I think that the people who are for it are commuters. If you live in base, then the block/reserve separate groups suck if you are a bubble person. For example:
1. Commuter pilot block holder and didn't get a line: most chose to sit reserve at home. The company would have to positive space the pilot to the hub and assign the trip with enough time to provide the commute (they basically never sat short call because they couldn't make a last minute coverage).
2. Live in base pilot block holder without a line: no reason to sit reserve at home for 65 hours when you can just choose reserve for 75 hours. Again, as someone living in base, you would certainly fly much more than a commuter that was at home.
I don't like having the separate categories.
Separate block/reserve has WAY too many moving parts to discuss in a vacuum like this. Temp, recall rights, monthly AE and those are just the ones that pop up quickly in my head. If we went to something like this, it would have to be done very carefully or it will be some sort of hybrid mess that none of us will recognize or like.
Now, in a vacuum, I liked it for probably the reason you said. As a commuter and on the bubble (current Delta system) one can bid into a position thinking they will be a line holder. IE, in my case I bid into SEA 330 with a 70% qualifier. So far so good, but what happens if in the next AE a bunch of senior dudes bid in and I drop to 90% and therefore reserve. In the NWA system, that wouldn't happen, there would be no line holder openings and one is safe........unless there are displacements then my displacement choice would kick in, line holder on something/someplace else.
We have much bigger fish to fry in the next section 6 and this will be too hard to get done in the section 6 context IMHO. I've flown with the father of the monthly APE system at NWA, and it was a multi-year process as I recall the stories.
Ferd