Originally Posted by
sulkair
Hey Fault, do you think late shift reserve will still be good.with all.the redeyes that have been added? I wanted to bid it but holy smokes there were so many redeyes that do.a.30 hour layover then convert to a 4 day with early shows.
We'll see! I really liked the redeyes a few years back, except for them being 1 too many legs for a 3 day trip.
In the fall when the flying slows down (hopefully), if you load 6 reserve days in a row, the typical worst case is a redeye on day 4, and back early on day 6, for only 1 day gone that week.
Originally Posted by
checksix72
Pardon my ignorance ... VJA/JA?
VJA = Voluntary Junior Assignment, which works thusly: You go online with FLiCA and specify what kind of VJA you're interested in (e.g. turns on Monday/Wednesday that leave before 10am and pay at least 5 hours of credit), and if they have a trip that they can't cover with reserves, they go from top to bottom of the seniority list calling people whose requests match the trip. If you answer, or call back, you get the trip with 125% pay credit. JA pays 150%, and goes from bottom to top of the seniority list calling every pilot who is legal for the trip. Over 82 credit hours for the month and you get 125% incentive applied too, which makes a total of 156% for VJA's and 188% for JA's.