Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I don't know. Do you have any known absences that month? Will you actually get called for a trip? Would you have yellow highed to get above the cap as I was told on here many pilots often did to be shown full and get a big month?
Would you have flown ALV+15 before as long as you were 2:01 below ALV?
Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
This may be the first post in human history where a guy is complaining about getting a line! Are you saying that is bad?
I can remember back in C2K reading the DALPA message boards. One guy was complaining loudly about how much reserve sucked, etc. Someone else chimed in, "uh, right now reserve is a pretty good gig and actually goes senior in some categories."
His response? "Well, something is wrong with a system where any pilot would voluntarily choose reserve."
UNbelievable.
Why does reserve have to be a punitive thing? Why should we want it to be punitive?
BTW, why are senior pilots bidding reserve? ALV-2 hours of pay and a month off, right? Well if they did that for a year, goofed one month and accidentally got a 14 days off 82 hour line, I bet they'd complain.
Originally Posted by
BlueMoon
That seat will go senior
Very true.
Originally Posted by
hitimefurl
14 days at 77 is 5.5 hours a day. Love to see pairings that high in pay...
I'm going to look at a bid packet here and run the numbers.
I'll use ATL88B as an example and I'm going to use the previously mentioned 80 hour ALV and 78 hour RES GUAR.
I'm looking at one particular RES line that is ON 02-03JUN, 07-11JUN, 14-18JUN, 21-25JUN, 27-30JUN.
On 02JUN this poor pilot gets 5804, 11.59 block hours.
07JUN, 6790, 22.36 block hours.
14JUN, 6091, 22.42 block hours.
21JUN, 6377, 22.38 block hours.
Now sitting at 77.29. They're still good for 27-30JUN and ALV+15 or [80]+15 or 95 hours. They're not good for any 4 days left on the 27th but they're good for 37 of the 38 3-days that start either on the 27th or 28th.
Now sure the bucket stuff should help, right? But this particular fellow is weekends ON reserve. He'll fly every day and probably never sit a SC, which if there isn't a 3 day on the 27th then he'll be #1 for SC since everyone else by that point would've had probably sat 3. Which is something that needs fixing, when you fly 77 hours and have 0 SCs you shouldn't be put on SC ahead of someone who has 3 and flown 0. But that's imho.