Originally Posted by
Probe
Short call abuse;
I cannot believe all the reserve whiners earlier in this thread. I just went back to the last day of last month, and the 21st of this month. Every fleet and seat in SFO, LAX, and DEN. I chose those because that is where the ones complaining were based.
What a joke. Sorry guys. The average reserve had 3 or 4 short calls. A few had 6. A very very very few had 7. Far more had 0 or 1, than 6 or 7. This is short call abuse? You want to hold off on a nice pay raise, early, along with several other enhancements, so you don't have to sit short call 3 or 4 times a month?
My credibility meter is pegged with anyone who complained about short call abuse.
Sorry, I gotta call it as I see it. Anyone is free to go to CCS under Trading/reserve availability and check it out for themselves.
Not only is there no "short call abuse", it looks like being on reserve is far better than it has ever been at United. I didn't even see any seat where the average reserve flew more than 60 hours. The average looked much less. Even the narrow body fleets.
The only catch with your argument is that the FIFO list on CCS only shows unused short calls. There is no way to show total number of short calls. So a lot of those guys actually had more short calls than indicated, but they were used on those short calls. That's not to say the company abuses short call, but those stats don't tell the entire picture. I think one of the biggest complaints is that there is no transparency in how short calls are created. Why on some days with similar forecasts do they need only 3 and other days 9 with half of them being created at 5pm. It makes life a little more difficult than necessary for reserves.