Originally Posted by
Probe
The "elephant in the room" that the whiners are not mentioning, is the 10 am earliest show for the 1st day of reserve. That gives most commuters to reserve 3-4 extra nights at home. We spent zero dollars negotiating that, it was a result of our contract, integrating with FAR 117.
ANY improvement to reserve, I guarantee, will be contingent on getting rid of that provision. How many of you that don't like our current system would trade that away, and for what?
Our current contract extension pushed the decision on that provision 2 years into the future, before it goes away. It will go away because 70% of us won't pay for it, including me who bids reserve half the time.
Yes, that 10am report time after days off makes a huge difference to a commuting reserve pilot. But if I could, I'd like to back up to my prior comment about analyzing the SC's being built by the crew desk. I would suggest a Scheduling Committee person be appointed to monitor SC's. Designing a computer program to dump all SC's into a spread sheet which would compare SC to actual use. My suggestions is to separate those SC that were used within the 2.5 hour call-out vs those that were released and assigned a trip between 10 or more hours after release. The whole purpose of which, is to "lift up the stone and shine a light on SC assignment building". This might help the negotiating team put pay provisions on those SC's that were released and assigned trips 10-12 hours after being released. In other words, building SC's by the crew desk would moved from an exercise of convenience to that of a cost to be tracked by the company bean counters who would be inclined to stop the practice because many SC's are UNNECESSARY.