Originally Posted by
rickair7777
It is highly efficient. Pilot sit time at airports is FREE!!! Well OK, it costs $1.85/hour. You couldn't hire an illegal immigrant for $2/hour. It doesn't get any more efficient than that. It's hard to trigger the daily duty overtime rig with 117.
Pilot sit time in hotels is mostly free...again, hard to trigger the trip rig. About the only way is Mx base flying (0500 show, 2300 release).
Our idea of efficiency is not the same as the company's...
At least we were smart enough (for now) to not give the ability to be notified while we are only making $1.85 per hour. Anyone who doesn't think the second we sign some type of reflow policy that these long sits will increase so that we can be pseudo ready reserves is crazy.
Originally Posted by
ClickClickBoom
Everything posted on the last few pages have been hot button issues for the last decade or more. Newsflash, it is what it is, don't like it, do something about it. Whining on a semi anonymous web board will change nothing. Airport sits, ready reserve, cruddy schedules are your, and every pilots destiny.
You are cheap compared to an airplane, they bought/leased the plane, and pay for every minute of ownership. You on the other hand are rented labor, and pretty cheap in price, compared to almost anything in aviation.
Don't like stuff? Do something about it, or it will continue long after you are dead from old age.
If you gotta ask what to do, then congrats this is your foreseeable future.....
Funny you should mention that. When the SAPA website was down earlier today, I first thought it may be my laptop. So I was doing a google search to see if I could get the site to come up and I ran across this old thread.
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/re...est-loses.html
Instead of posting in it, I just decided to put it out here for everyone to see how much things stay the same. Before my time, but I wonder how much QOL we have lost since this discussion took place. I agree that there are certain limitations of what we can get being a regional, but SGU will soon have to realize that "the way we have always done it" will not work with the 117 rules. The fact that we still can't stack trips because of antiquated CS software is amazing to me. And trust me, doing everything possible to get out. No more hope that things will get better here. If we are requiring 89-90 hours for lines in November during our slow time, that tells me the company has just decided this is the new normal. Hoping to be on the front side of the attrition wave out of here.