Originally Posted by
IFLYPLANEZBRO
Staffing. People don't like to work at Skywest they want to credit like 75 hrs and be at home more. So everyone is complaining.
The reserve rules are really basic. 3 types reserve shortcall vs long call vs ready. Ready is like a 30 minute call time but you can only be on ready for 4 hrs or something like that, shortcall is 2 hr call out in shifts of 12 hrs. 4am to 4pm or 9 to 9. Then long call is a 12 hr call out available 24hrs a day for 4 days at a time.
At the end of your shift you're done. You don't have to call in for release like at some airlines. There is very little variables. You have your schedule of when your on call and when your not. It doesn't change (for the most part, long call can be changed a few times a month)
But really people just don't like being on call.
Sorry to go back to this but I really need some clarification. You are saying that the only reason our reserve rules suck is because people don't like being on call and don't want to work?? AYFSM?? Our reserve rules are anything but basic. Our reserve rules suck because you can be on call at 4:00 in the morning, get a trip assigned starting at 10:00 AM and get extended past 16 hours duty day "because it's legal" You can get flown into another base for 5 days and rot in a hotel because it helps show better utilization numbers. You can get assigned to do ready reserve for 8 hours "just in case" You can get DH out to another base to do an hour and 20 minutes of flying with a 15 hour duty day because we don't know how to properly staff all our bases.
I don't mean to come at you, but this is the problem we have when there is a lot of hiring and people don't sit reserve for very long. And this is the reason that management can keep pushing off the reserve re-write. If we had reserve proffering, everyone's QOL would be so much better but we don't make it a priority. When we have our own pilots spewing the crap that AS and JO throw out, we will never see any gains.
In summary to the original question. Our reserve rules have went downhill because SGU is so afraid that we may pay someone 76 hours and they will only work 72. So SGU spends countless man hours in CS to bleed every minute out of our reserve pilots. It doesn't matter how demoralizing it is, because everyone needs to pay their dues.