Originally Posted by gloopy

The other side of this needs to have nothing on day one before noon and long call needs to increase from the current 12 hours. I agree with others that 16 hours is the minimum acceptable, although I'd prefer 19. Even the company says (and pretty much seems to be sticking to) at least 16 hours in most cases, so it clearly can be done with around the same existing staffing.

Current language to the previous FAR's gave us the ability to turn the phone off for any 9 hour block we wanted to for rest (and therefore safety). The fantasy memo in question shreds that long established safety based protection and pretends to impose a fake non binding 2 hour rolling leash while on long call, which simply does not exist. While its true an arbitrator may attempt to "split the baby" to some degree, there is no, and there has never been, any contractual provision forcing long call pilots into a circadian busting 2 hour rolling leash. That "interpretation" if it can even be called that has a zero percent chance of becoming codified into an arbitrators ruling. That would be a massive, earth shattering case of "legislating from the bench" that would discredit the entire process because it would be made up out of thin air and imposed from pure desire.

The dangers here aren't so much the potentiality of a rogue broken arrow arbitrator so much as us getting lost in the murky details and getting distracted by tertiary issues. Trying to tie an issue totally and completely about reserve notification issues into the web of etherial constructs like door pay and other things is a trap and a sure sign the company is playing chess 3 moves ahead while we're focusing on one checker piece at a time.

This issue is about reserve notification and the result needs to fix those issues first, not be a source of funding for other things in exchange for give backs, last day schedule checks and 2 hour long call leashes.