Originally Posted by
kfahmi
Ah. Thank you. That clarifies a lot.
A few more noob questions:
1) What is 'self-notification'?
When as assignment is added to your schedule, a prompt page will appear before you can see your sked+ calendar (there are ways around this...see the SAPA website) with a button to acknowledge the changes, this is the same as being notified over the phone. Most reserves just use the phone call as an alert, check sked+ to make sure it's legit, then click the button online. As long as you do it within 10 mins, all is good.
2) Let's say you're on reserve and they call you to fly a 4-day. On Day 2, it turns out that the original lineholder, who called in sick on Day 1 (thereby putting you on that trip) is now feeling well and wants to pick up the rest of the trip. Can CS remove you from the trip? If so, how would they notify you if you don't answer the phone?
You will be able to see the pending change on sked+, and your name will not be on the release or initialization page of ACARS. This is one scenario where you will have to call/acknowledge online after check in, but only once unless they put RR on your schedule. They can't pull you off a trip and keep calling you assigning more flying (unless you are on RR).
3.) In your example above, you were scheduled for a 9a-9p reserve. But, CS switched your report time to 6 am. They're allowed to do that, just because you talked to them?
They cannot release you from your
current RAP into rest to cover flying later on.
There's a MOU between SAPA and CS. They like to pretend it doesn't exist, call in fatigue if needed. Everyone I've encountered who CS forced it on their schedule was pay protected via the fatigue report.
4) if they send a message via ACARS, now what? Do you just ignore it?
Yes.
As I understand it the 'grey area' is WHO can actually make contact with you face to face and inform you to call CS. I hear many people say SkyWest employees only, I would only do it if some management person were standing at the door. The United OPS guy on the in-range call? No way. The Delta gate agent, keep walking. Your asst chief or admin person? I'd do it.
5) once you've bid for your reserve line for the month, can they change your days off? Or are those hard days off?
Hard, that's my argument why bidding specific days off in PBS is a bad idea. The company will just monkey with everyones schedules after the lineholders bid is ran. As it stands now they're fixed schedules that are released on the 10th. One of the tools we have is *attempting* to swap days in order to get a needed day off. Giving the company the ability to swap days would not be a good thing.
6) Does bidding/ seniority determine who gets LCR and who gets SCR? If you're stuck on SCR, is there any way to change to LCR?
Yes.
LCR's can ask to be converted so SCR for either a workday block or entire month. No way to change from SCR to LCR. LCR is not as awesome as it sounds for commuters.
Good luck broseph!