Originally Posted by
Coach67
Won't find it in the TA. At L-UAL they use it a lot. You drive to the airport and need to be in Ops at Field Standby report time. Segment is normally 4 hours long. Some domiciles have you sign in. They get in touch if they need you by paging and cell phone.
This is one thing that really peeves me about the TA. It currently pays 5 hours per day. The TA it's for free but after they use you for the second one ... on the third FSB ... they bump your min guarantee. If you sit FSB for three times in the current contract you'd already have 15 hours towards breaking the guarantee. The TA FSB is much cheaper for the Company because:
1) they can target you by making the FSB a 1-day, 2-day, 3-day, or 4-day FSB and assign it to someone who won't get the third FSB to change their guarantee, and
2) with the current FSB language, at least you'd get five hours of pay which makes the decision to go high or low much easier!
We'll see alot more FSB's with the TA.
We have field standby language is C'02 but it's seldom, if ever used.
Is it better to have 5 hours of pay towards MPG or 1 hour of add pay after two events? Debatable. The JNC has analyzed it and insists that the 1 hour of add pay after two events provides more value in terms of pay and utilization than the current systems and UAL and CAL.
From my own experience at my previous airline, which did use FSB,
the only time they'd ever use FSB was during the slow months when they were overstaffed. Typically, it was near impossible to break guarantee at those times, so the add pay would be more beneficial.