Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You ignore all the good changes on reserve. You are now full at the reserve guarantee, known absences now count toward being full (huge in a vacation or training month) and a 8 percent average raise for the year on top of the 12.8 percent a the amendable date.
Your description of how the change came about is also wildly inaccurate.
I am with you here. Overall, the changes resulted in much improved pay for reserve pilots.
With the bucket system and weekend flying there might be some junior Douglas pilots getting really abused compared to everyone else. If anyone has flown an ALV+15 month against their will, I've not seen their example. The trade off for the junior pilots that want to escape the MD are doing back to back red eyes to one hour + van rides up dirt roads in a diesel powered version of a 1972 volkswagen vanagon populated by four exhausted flight attendants, your Captain, the van driver and his significant other. At least the local version of the Rush Limbaugh show is blaring to the sound of something that sounds like an Orangutan is singing to the beat of combat boots in a clothes dryer. WOMPITY WOMP eeeeeeeelalalala WOMPITY CRASH! Pregunte deLLTAH KAPITAN tomorrow twenty three fifEETEE van. Then they motion for you to light their cigarette. When in God's green earth have First Officers carried cigarette lighters? Anyway, how do they smoke at 10,000 feet? Jeesh, I'm bidding back to Douglas test flight work.
New York ER might be the best junior flying deal in the system, but, New York.
Heard a rumor we are going to ETOPS a couple of 737's and send them DBN / SNN, close in Europe. That thing sure isn't very comfortable for that kind of flying. At least talk show hosts are less inteligible in Gaelic and they dive on the wrong side of the road.