Originally Posted by
RonRicco
When it comes to reserves and weekend staffing, you guys really need to think through this a little more. Pilots complain like crazy about not being able to swap, drop etc because of reserve coverage, so the formula is changed to a more realistic number which means that the first day the schedules are released that there is a much great chance of being able to do something with a weekend trip or on call day. So, during the first pcs run pilots start working to get weekends off that have excess reserve coverage and you end up with some fat days during the week and what should be even numbers on the weekend (up until misc trps are dropped, created etc) which prevents further pcs changes for the most part.
Are people actually proposing that we keep reserve coverage higher on the weekends so that pilots can't pd, swap etc so a pilot that is on reserve may not be as likely to fly on his on call days? Really?
Ron,
+ 1000!
Some on here continually lament every aspect about the reserve system including the following:
Too many short-calls - we used to have two short-call windows every day.
Too many Pilots required on the weekend - so they cant drop these days.
Not enough Pilots required on the weekend - some poor soul gets a GS.
Pay on reserve sucks - It was 70 hours.
Guys on Reserve never break guarantee.
Guys on Reserve will be forced to fly ALV+15 every month.
ALV + 15 is why we are not hiring, even though Reserve only constitutes a small minority of DAL Pilots and we have not actually seen this yet. The fact that the vast majority of DAL Pilots are line-holders some who routinely fly up to 90 hours a month seems not to matter, even though it negatively affects hiring much more than the reserve rules.
Guys - Reserve at DAL is probably better than it has ever been. Can and should we still try to improve it - absolutely. We will be in section 6 in two years and will then have actual numbers and facts which we can analyze to see what changes we should prioritize.
Stand by for current political paraphrase:
"Reserve at DAL it is not the Apocalypse that some around here have been saying it is."
Who said it and about what?
Scoop
