Originally Posted by
Dragon7
This is it in a nutshell. "Changes to reserve" that have a cost to the company AND/OR to the real or perceived QOL of senior folks is a nonstarter. But if we can get the MEC to address the SC/FSB assignment process that makes it transparent, viewable, and metric driven that is a win/win. The arguments on the extremes of paddling around on your non domicile pool on reserve or just assign everybody available a SC/FSB at 1640 to cover 2 departures are not tenable.
Maybe being able to bid LC or SC again is a possible solution. Allowing FSB into this contract was monumental stupidity, and it it has to be massaged a bit.
And no, it wasn't worth voting no at this point to fix. IMHO. If the entry point for the company on fixes to reserve is to do away with the 10am first day show, all negotiations should be accomplished by the NC from a Budweiser raft floating around in a pool in Phoenix.
The 10 am first day show was never negotiated, but a by product of our current contract, plus 117. It is very expensive for the company. It is just sheer, dumb luck that we have it.
The "fix" to reserve will probably be that this goes away in the next contract, as we are unwilling to spend the capital to keep it. The current contract extension keeps all the bennies of the current system, including the 10 am show on the first day.
I bid reserve about half the time, and fly with reserves about 1/3 of the time. The only pilots I hear complaining about reserve are on this board. The last one I flew with that complained about our system was back in 07 or so.
Hopefully no changes to reserve. Any change, will probably be for the worse.