Originally Posted by
StraightShooter
If you want to make some serious money, you can list yourself as "VDA" on your days off. VDA stands for Voluntary Day Assignment. If assigned a trip on your day off, it pays at 190% (which is premium 150% plus junior assign pay 40%).
For reserves, that 190% goes above guarantee. So a 2 day trip worth 10 hours is essentially worth 19 hours. That takes reserve pay from 75 to 94 hours.
Then if you want to sell back your sick time you can at 150%. Everyone at 5 years seniority or less gets 9 hours per month, and if you have more than 100 hours of sick time saved up, you can email payroll and they will pay that sick time back every single month.
Sooo, 75 hours of reserve, plus 10 hours of VDA (19 hours essentially) plus 9 hours of sick time sold back (essentially 13.5 hours) equals 107.5 hours of MONTHLY credit on Reserve.
Not a bad deal at all.
While JetBlue has issues that need to be addressed, this happens to be one of our golden nuggets.
So you're saying when we're short staffed (VDA's being called) and you have 100 plus hours of PTO (no paid sick calls for your first year on property, which is unrealistic) then reserve pays over 100 hours! So it's not that bad! That's really an exaggeration as you accused a previous poster.
I saw over 75 hours of pay once in 5 months on reserve. And that was a reassignment into a day off. Not voluntary.