Originally Posted by
Saabs
Many companies have u check on your day off.
Colgan did but if there was nothing on your schedule, you were released the next day and that was for long call only. We are talking about short call and long call. Also, the long call requires you to check the day prior and to be available from 0430-1930 the day of.
By the way, anytime you checked your schedule the day prior on long call at Colgan or Pinnacle and you didn't have 24 off in 7, you violated FARs. It probably never happened though because honestly Colgan treated us better.
Another section that will be a big QOL change will be we will now be scheduled for Airport Standby (Reserve). If you didn't notice they dropped the requirement for them to let us go home to get a bag packed for an overnight and: "A Reserve Pilot on Airport Standby may be required to fly a trip that remains overnight and should be prepared to work as many reserve days as are left in his current sequence."
The reason we don't sit airport reserve is because they would have to let us go home first for anything other than a round trip so they just stick with the 1.5 hour callout. I for one am not willing to start sitting Airport Reserve unless they gave us something huge in return and not this concessionary piece of crap.