Originally Posted by
scambo1
Not a grammar nazi, but you must be posting on an iphone because you keep saying moo point and it is moot point. I know I've had my share of misspellings.
On the 777, senior reserves skate out of short call and callouts too. Junior reserves do 6 sc's a month.
I think readily available pilots are gold to schedulers in every category...I think they'd like to have everyone live in base and be on s/c 24/7.
Being on reserve can be a good deal - like you had last winter. It can also be a bad deal because daily credit stinks - hard time is hard to come by domestically on reserve - the deck is stacked against you. I have had domestic months like Elvis had and I was younger. They still kicked my butt. Put yourself in the miserable shoes of a commuting reserve narrowbody domestic pilot.
The only thing a domestic reserve pilot can hope for is to not work, but we all know hope rarely materializes into reality.
I have to say, I did 3 years of reserve under the raw system and have been under this system since it started. Long call under the old system in my view was better for more pilots and the same QOL for senior pilots. SC under the new system is better for all pilots.
I've been on the horn with DALPA about this since January and basically their reply is this:
- 80 raw score represents 5 or 6 days flying and a short call and that is why we will stick with it. It's low enough.
- This implementation was exactly designed to bring seniority back into the reserve system.
- Under the old reserve system senior pilots did not fly for weeks and junior pilots broke guarantee on a regular basis. The company wanted to equal this situation out hence the RUO/RAW system, but that relegated seniority out of the system, the SOT was directed to correct it, company said no, SOT pushed for YS to a point or as far as we could.
- Upon reply80 raw score is not too high, it only represents 5 or 6 days of flying plus a short call.
See that part about the company wanting to equal out the situation? I think they will figure out a way making it a... well... I mean who cares what a cow thinks?