Originally Posted by MoonShot

A long call pilot that gets called in the middle of the night at 0100 for a 1300 show must now acknowledge the trip NLT 0300, there by interrupting his REM cycle and leading to terrible "rest" prior to the trip. (According to the company, not the contract).

Yeah, something has to give. They are going to have to extend long call to make any sense at all. Trips like this are going to have to go to short calls.

Whatever happens, we need to make sure that DALPA doesn't allow more short call periods. The company already gets too many IMO. "I'm only sitting a couple short calls a month right now so it doesn't matter" you say? Wait until we are experiencing a ton of movement and all the categories look like the -88 does now. Long call will be but a dream...

Looks like the ball is in our court to get some reserve improvements, because this new "policy" doesn't jive with the contract.