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Old 01-30-2013 | 07:06 AM
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samc
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Year 6 of longevity (FO). I'm back on RSV this month. I fully expect to deadhead a minimum of 25 hours, I'll probably fly 30 hours.

My first RSV day in the last 6 months and they are already assigning a FAR illegal trip for me tomorrow. I expect my phone to be blowing up here in a few minutes and will likely get 5-10 calls today on my day off.

This is, by far, the worst part of our CBA, if you are on RSV, you can expect to be involved in company business all but a few days a month, as they'll call you on your days off EVERY week.

On the upside, if you are called out, it counts 4 hours towards guarantee. On the downside, you will almost never break guarantee, unless you use your days off to pick up open-time. The last time I broke guarantee, a mysterious accounting error prevented me getting paid for the time. Still not corrected 8 months later.

No one on RSV "enjoys" it, you are really abused and your time is wasted. I would avoid RSV here at (nearly) all costs.

One guy I know got this last week...DHD from DEN-LAS Limo from LAS-IFP, Overnight, then fly one leg, overnight, limo 4 hours to another Podunk RAH base, overnight, sit out of base RSV for 10 hours, double deadhead home. This is happening almost every day now that we have this charter stuff on the Republic side. Four days, one leg. I frequently get the four days 3 legs, but this is a new low.
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