Originally Posted by
nwaf16dude
So, what happens to the 787 guys under your contract when there are no 787 trips to bid? Reserve guarantee?
For March, we bid our PBS lines as if we were bidding a "regular month" of flying. For March, the bid pack was predominantly:
IAH-AMS-IAH
IAH-LHR-IAH
IAH-LOS-IAH
IAH-DEN-NRT-DEN-IAH
IAH-LAX-NRT-LAX-IAH
IAH-LAX-PVG-LAX-IAH
IAH-ORD-IAH (Turns)
When the PBS bid window closed, the PBS Magic Machine spit out each Pilot's line award as if it was a "normal month of flying". What you were awarded, is what you are paid for the month of March. The Total Line Credits (speaking for the FO's) were as high as 87:20 clear down to the low/mid 70's, min line value.
Following the March PBS bid award, the Company is planning on wiping the PBS lines clean, and putting RX (Reserve) Days over they days that each Pilot is scheduled to fly during next month. Starting in March, each 787 Pilot that is to remain with the plane during the grounding will 'plan' to be scheduled to come to Houston 2x's a month (roughly every 14 days) to complete a CQST Sim session to remain "current". The Pilot is to be scheduled to do so ONLY on the days that he/she was slotted to fly via their March PBS award. IF the Company chooses to bring the Pilot down to IAH on an "OFF" day per the Pilot's PBS bid award, the Pilot is paid an additional 3.75hrs to their March PBS bid award.
All the above info was from the L-CAL MEC Update that was dated Jan 30, 2013. As of today, I have not been contacted/told to expect different.