Originally Posted by citation35hf:1387296
Originally Posted by
magnus0322
AWAC is a great company. To be fair, they have an all 50 seat jet fleet and a CPA that expires in a few years... With the current trend being 50 seat or less jets getting parked (see 9E, OO, EV parking 200s in exchange for 900s) it will be interesting to see what happens with them.
Also, Republic doesn't have true cancellation pay, however if you are reassigned you are pay protected for the greater of originally scheduled block or actual reassignment... Still sucks though. And as far as staffing... my understanding is in March alone they hired 70 pilots, with yet more to come. Right now it seems the only plane they struggle to staff is the Q400.
Man, I get this strange feeling you're new at RAH. As in less than 1 yr here. To even remotely stick up for how the company does the whole REA/cnx pay is criminal. Yes, if you are reassigned to different flying in a parring, you get the greater of the two.
However, if anything gets cancelled you get squat. I was on a 4 day worth 24 hours in the fall, bunch of crap got cancelled. I sat in the PIT hotel for the last three days because the company told me I couldn't leave. I credited all of 8 hours for those 4 days I was on the trip.
Get back to me when you have that happen.
I am in disgust reading your quote. "but hey if you get reassigned they actually pay you for the reassign!!" like its some sort of great thing that we should be thankful for.
Yes I'm new here. No it's not my first rodeo. I said to be fair... They could just reassign you and only pay you for what you fly instead of pay protect you for your entire pairing until you are back on your original trip. I'm guessing Republic is your only regional? Believe it or not there are worse places out there to work. And yes during Sandy I got stuck for 4 days and my trip became worthless. It sucks. That's why I said earlier that even with the reassignment it still sucks. So you can be disgusted all you want but I never intended for it to sound like I am defending the company.
One thing I really hate is that I can't bid a 75 hr max days off schedule. If I could then cancellation wouldn't matter to me. It does matter though. I'm starting to realize how far away we are from a new contract. Let's hope we get an industry standard contract sooner rather than later.