Originally Posted by
BlueMoon
Why would the NTSB care?
NMB.. sorry, sticky fingers
Originally Posted by
Nevets
How much open time do you guys have (hours) once your trips are awarded? I thought your system completes the trip awarding process with as minimal amount of open time as possible. With our ILIW, it's first come first served with hundreds of hours in open time. Do you have positive coverage in order to drop trips? Do you have bad day worse day trades? Are there any day trips or two day trips in open time? I'm not talking about pilots' advertised trips by the way.
It has varied by base/aircraft. IAD CA/FO and ATL FO are seeing large pots of 4 days and naps. We are still restricted by assumed coverage for the company so our Senority Open Time starting on the 21st only allows for same day trades or complete trip pick ups....starting the 25th reserve coverage is set and different day swaps are allowed...then the last day they allow split trip pickups only. It only becomes a free-for-all on the 1st of the next month.
Our post bid swap/drop/trade rules are restrictive and far inferior to what is allowed on the erj side. I was not saying the work rules are no different, only that there is the potential to 'play the system' and that I did not consider that a negative personally.
As for your last statement, who cares what the mediator says? He can't force us to accept something from management we don't want, like completely getting rid of vacation low, for example.
Honestly, that was my misunderstanding of the RLA - it seems the worst that might happen in that case is the NMB might not release us for 'self-help' if they don't think we're being reasonable. That being the case, it goes back to negotiation capital.