Originally Posted by
TonyC
Look in the CBA for an animal called "Temporary Vacancy". The Company can send a Memphis MD-11 guy to Anchorage or Los Angeles for 3 months, or a Memphis B-767 to Indy for 3 months ... anybody to any non-FDA base. The provisions are remarkably similar, yet there was no outcry about TVs during any CBA ratification vote.
One can commute to Alaska, California, even Indiana. My objection to the STV concept is the company wanted pilots on a short lease sitting around begging to pick up open time. It was not a smart move by the union because it allowed the company to do more flying with less pilots at straight pay. Much like the reason behind the company's harassment of current FDA pilots. They want them sitting around their 600 sq foot closet hawking open time. I wanted to be an airline pilot, particularly a FDX airline pilot, to do what I wanted where I wanted to do it on my days off.
There was a reason that Subic was not included on your list of Temporary Vacancy locations. And as I recall the people they sent over to Subic to augment got very lucrative SIBA trips. The company was punished for not manning the base appropriately not rewarded.