Originally Posted by
Payme
Don't let aggressive pickup lull you into thinking this is a good system. Crew sked will manipulate your ability to pick up through the use of the silos and assigning short calls. In the old UA system, you could pick up 24/48 hours out domestic/international and you still weren't able to pick up much on your first few days on reserve. This 11:00 the day prior pickup will just give the company all morning the day prior to grab you for something else. Also, no longer 13 hours for conversion to short call. Very concessionary versus current UA.
They only have two hours for all the bases in the same time zone to jack with your tip you aggressively picked up. I think you are giving the crew desk a lot more credit than they are capable of.
Does the current UAL book prevent FSB or short calls when open trips, I don’t remember?
20-I-6-d
An assignment that is open by 1100 on the day prior to the assignment’s report or
start time shall be provisionally assigned from 1300 to 1459 on the day prior; the Company
may modify such provisional assignments during this time. At 1500 all such assignments
shall become firm and a Reserve must check his schedule after 1500 to see if he has
received an assignment. If an insufficient number of Reserves are available to cover all
such assignments, a Reserve who could be assigned an Open Trip shall not be given a
Short-Call or Field Standby assignment. If any Trips shall remain uncovered, the Company
shall determine which Trips shall remain uncovered.