Originally Posted by
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Ok. I'm trying to digest this letter on what the company is trying to do with reserve. So, correct me if I'm wrong, does it look like the earliest SC, and earliest report time for a trip, we can be assigned on Day 1 of reserve is 12 noon?
If true, that is a great improvement.
That part may be a bit of improvement, but to me, it is not worth the concession of having to be no more than 2 hours from acknowledgement of an assignment while on long call. And that first-day benefit only benefits you on day one. The within-two-hour-acknowledgement lasts the whole stretch of reserve days. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
As was phrased earlier by Ron, it is like you are on short call while on long call.... always have to be able to acknowledge a trip within two hours of being contacted while on long call. As I said before, you may not even be able to get through a movie and meet that requirement. Forgot your phone while out on the town for dinner while on long call? Well, carpet dance for you. Want to sleep for 8 hours straight with no interruption, oh well. Or [insert any other number of examples here]. That, imho, is a huge reserve concession (as if 30 day summer months, alv+15, 7 short calls weren't bad enough). Not having to respond to or worry about an attempted contact while on long call until 3 hours prior to show is one of the large benefits of being on long call. Now they want to make it 10 hours prior.
The letter states that greater than 12 hours gives you more time to acknowledge, but how do you know how far out it is without having to always be contactable so that you can check and see how far out it is, to know how much time you have to acknowledge... lol?
From Purple:
The memo, as I read it, states that a long call pilot cannot go more than two hours without checking his schedule/phone/etc.
Seems like it to me.