MAGPBS... I think you are confused as to what the old system was. You are talking about the new system, unless something has changed since that too and we are on a third agreement. The new system I know of was the one that they put you on reserve and you called in. That was/is a disaster. The old system, or old, old, system, was the best. I did it a bunch and once dropped, you were OFF. Not on reserve. Hence the new way of them now being able to reassign you stuff is so much worse. NOW you are on RESERVE. Please read below.
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wt932051
Agree 100 percent with everything you said! It is good knowing somebody gets it. So thanks BeatNavy.
The dropped for IOE part you mentioned was also a huge mistake on the unions part. It use to be as you described, but then commuters were complaining that they would commute in to find out that their 4 day trip was dropped and have to commute back home. Poor thing. The home based pilots didn't care. So what the union did was create a letter of agreement for a new system. It was a 3 month test. At the end was to be voted on. The new system would allow the commuters to find out 24-48 hours in advance if their trip was dropped, but they had to call in, and could be reassigned another trip. They had to do this at least twice on a 4 day trip if I remember right. Once before the first two days of it, and again 24-48 hours before the last two days. Sounds good for the commuters right? Worse for the home based. Now they had to stay close to home instead of take off to Hawaii for the week. What ended up happening is the company started reassigning junk to both the commuters and the home based pilots. Like standups, day turns, causing hotels for commuters now, and was just worse because now you had to work instead of being off. So the union dropped the ball. It went on for 2 years like this before it was voted on. At that point the people like me who knew the old way was better were now captains not getting dropped anymore. Now the replacement FO's only knew the new system and didn't know the old way was so much better. So the vote came and guess what? It passed by a slim margin. How? The union sent an email recommending to vote yes to all these clueless pilots. So now we are stuck with a worse system then we had. That is how it came to be today. There is your history lesson and you can thank the union once again for dropping the ball and letting Mesa once again run over us.