Originally Posted by
buzzpat
Just an aside, for all of you guys *****ing about the new reserve rules. I ran into the #1 CA in LA today in the lounge. He bid reserve to essentially take the month off. He was on his second day of back to back SCs...and he commutes. So much for the senior guys getting over.
Give it a few months and see how it plays out. He didn't think it was so seniority friendly.
Back to your normal channel.
Buzz,
The seniority on reserve issue is being blown way out of proportion on this site - probably because many of the posters are very junior and think they might get hosed - fair enough, but I think many are premature in their judgment.
We both have said give it a chance - if it is unfair lets fix it, but guys want to call it a failure now and point to the small but vocal group on this forum as proof that it is unfair. Well lets look at a couple of things:
1. I looked at the RAW scores of a few junior categories and am not seeing the "unfairness" that I thought would be overwhelming.
11Feb2012 ATL 88B RAWs:
34
71
48
18
38
105
Well obviously the junior guy got hosed at 105 - wrong the 105 RAW is the most senior pilot on the list for today. My only guess would be he wanted to get into group 2 and have the 2nd half of the month off - who knows. Also the raw of 18 is the most junior guy for today.
This is the exact opposite of what we were told was going to happen.
2. I looked at the DALPA forum for the expected posting about the junior guys are getting hosed on reserve. Could not find it because most guys there, perhaps due to a more even distribution throughout the seniority list, had nothing but praise for the new system with kudos to the SOT.
So I will say again - lets give it a few months and see how it actually works before we deem it a failure.
If after a few months it can be confirmed to unfairly burden the junior guys then absolutely we should fix it. But lets make sure its broke before we fix it.
Scoop