Originally Posted by horrido27

As a Proud Owner of a 2 day last month that paid 2:55 and had a 29 hr sit in PIT, I totally agree that 5 hrs pay per day is a plus. I wanted a little more, but 5 was my min on this.

My only concerns is in the pairing that someone posted earlier.. and how PBS is going to build schedules.

As far as Reserve is concerned.. believe it or not, but I do bid reserve every now and then. Live local, like the break in my month and am able to do some mil stuff without killing myself when I get my usual 6 crossings, 12 days off a month.

I don't like the idea of Field Standby. Mind you, as a 756 guy flying mostly International (though, since the merger we [EWR 756] are doing more longer domestic and Hawaii stuff), I don't think (least I hope not!) that 756 reserves are gonna get a lot of Field Standby.

But here is my concern.
IF we do order a CS300.. or EMB 190/195 and start running it like a quasi Regional Operation, I fear alot of Field Standby for those guys.
I'm told that FS is something you guys have in your contract.. but not really used (?). At CAL, we don't have it and therefor I worry about it.

As far as the 0400 thing is concerned, I'll have to recheck my CBA. Though our's was 0200 but it might also be 0400. Hopefully a CAL guy can comment.

We got to keep talking about the Good, Bad and Ugly of this thing. Doesn't matter if we're CAL, UAL, Narrow body or Wide body, Senior or Junior..
If this thing passes, we are going to be living with it for the next 7 years. And when the next big downswing happens, what and where will the new management come looking to cut and take away.

This thing has got to be Leading Edge and Solid NOW.

Yeah, I'm a NO Voter~

Motch

PS> I'm glad to hear that you would be getting an extra 15 hours of pay if this was our JCBA right now.
But from my end, I would be getting an extra $800 a month and not sure yet how much extra's I'd be paying out.
Not to mention, I still haven't been able to figure out what my "signing bonus" is!