Originally Posted by
tsquare
Do away with buckets.. period. Then you have totally restored seniority to reserve. Company's problem. Not ours to ensure manning is proper to cover the flying with pilots that operate in a seniority based system.
First check your PM, something there I can't post here.
Second, in my view seniority on reserve is the same as for a regular pilot. Your schedule requests are awarded in seniority order. Since that's the case, why provide reserve pilots something not provided to regular pilots?
In a seniority based reserve system the expressed goal is a month off of work for senior pilots (defined however wants to define that) unless snowmageddon or similiar IROPs event occurs or they want to work.
So for regular pilots SILs should be mandatory per the contract to a percentage determined by the company and the union. The SILs should pay ALV. Those pilots should have to bid though and they can keep trips they want and the rest are unstacked in seniority order - not inverse order.
Because senior reserve pilots should not be getting a benefit that pilots inevitably senior to them in the category are not getting, a month off with pay.
Third, to me the buckets should be category contingent based on a formula that prevents the pilot one number junior flying all month in ones place. RAW was a formula and rather predictable imo. I want to get away from arbitrary scheduling systems, it's what is ruining reserve as is. What they could've done is enacted LOA 29 as is but without the buckets and brought back the high yellow.
But none of this 15 point garbage but maybe something that was equal to the longest trip in category plus 1 SC and decreasing proportionally down the reserve list. Such that if you are pilot 1 of 100, you get the max high yellow. Pilot 50 of 100 gets half a high yellow if they request it. Pilot 100 out of 100 gets a high yellow of 0. Now let RAW spread the unrequested flying evenly. Such that your RAW and work counts for something.
If you have 8 days on a row under this system and FTDT you could do 2 back-to-back 4 days. 10 days, 2 back-to-back 5 days. WB? 2 back-to-back 6 days.