Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
These will greatly affect staffing numbers (more stagnation) and would make reserve potentially very abusive.
Reserve
o Reserve guarantee
§ Increase to 72:00 – 80:00 (variable with ALV)
So, does this mean you want the reserve guarantee to stay at 70 hrs? I think you will be in the minority with that opinion.
§ Max reserve changed from ALV to ALV + 15:00
There seems to be differing opinions on what this means. 1. Scheduling can assign up to ALV + 15 to someone who is below guarantee. 2. Scheduling has to call and ASK whether you want the trip. You can say know. (We kinda have this already with ability to yellow slip to ALV+15.
§ Ability to pick up additional on-call days for increased reserve guarantee
Okay, I'll agree this could hurt manning. My guess is not by too much.
Do you really see all of the points you posted above as negatives?????
Denny
I'm typing on the iphone so excuse the pending mess...
I realize I am in the minority with raising reserve guarantee, but I'd rather see the rates increased rather than staffing decreased.
Say we went from a hard 70 hours to 80 hours. The company is not going to allow us to be full at 70 but get paid 80. They'll want us for the 80 hours. 10 more hours by 1 pilot means 1/8th of another not needed. In theory if we have 80 pilots in a category, get rid of 10 for the same amount of flying.
And not so in theory, I wonder if the 60 hour reserve month baseline in the pbs staffing formula will need to be moved higher?
Imho, an increase in pay for a reduction in staffing is never the way and i get nervous when I see the reserve guarantee monkied with or for people to demand a higher guarantee without thinking of the consequences.
As to the picking up x days. As a senior reserve guy this gives me a plan. Say we could do that today, what I would do is bid weeekends off so I don't work and then put most of my week days off at the end of the month in case I do ever come up for flying. Surely I'd come up for SC by then. Anyways, I'd plan on picking up 3 reserve days at the end, say a Fri-Sun that I had off. It'd probably be all I work so jackpot!!!
I could get a near 80 hours of pay on 15 hours of work.
I tell my buddy, he does the same, he tells three others and so on. All of a sudden covering trips with low reserve coverage magically is just happening now. No GSs needed, fewer WSs needed, fewer reserves may be needed.
I'd hope the TA has protections from ourselves because like trip parking nobody ever seems to think of the ramifications of their money making schemes.