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.
OBJECTION: LEADING THE WITNESS
They do NOT use FSB "all the time". They used it all the time back in the mid to late 90's. Now it's quite rare to get FSB. It's usually a holiday thing that they use in categories where they are fat on reserves. Why? Because in 4 hours, they lose you for the day. They would rather have you on the hook for 15 hours, and know you are getting to the airport within 3 hours or so then have you close by and only get you for 4 hours.
Yes, it pays 5 hours a day.... towards your guarantee. As mentioned above, they typically will only use it if you are in a category that has spare bodies, and it doesn't hurt them to burn a reserve in 4 hours instead of 15. So in those categories, how many guys break guarantee? If you don't, that 5 hours a day does you NO good.
The TA says you get Add pay on top of MPG after the 3rd FSB OR short call. Now THAT you can almost bank on getting every month unless you are actively trying to pick up trips on every single one of your reserve days.