Originally Posted by
viper548
We really should be comparing ourselves to Delta and United but here's one regional example.
SkyWest:
-4:12 min calendar day
-hotel night before CQT
-no recovery obligation
-ability to rejoin trip if you call in sick for part of it.
-able to bank vacation. Don't like Jan vacation- hang onto it and use it when you have better seniority.
-reserves able to work extra reserve days for extra pay/premium if used
Obviously pay and 401k are worse. Also:
-airport reserve
-defined reserve call out time
-no sick if needed
-no "f time"
The point here is we need to see what others have and improve our contract, not keep our heads in the sand.
You're saying a 4:12 minimum CD day is better then a 5:10 average day? We'd lose more pay switching to that.
Training doesn't start until the afternoon of day one to allow deadhead to training in the am.
Recovery obligation mirrors DL and UA, but worse in smaller details for sequence protection. Did Skywest have sequence protection?
Floated vacation days can be used in lieu of vacations you don't like. They can be used to drop trips (low probability unless they're decent trips and another pilot grabs it), go low and use floated days to make up the $$$, or cashed out at the end of the year. Are you saying Skywest would let you defer a January vacation until the summer? Technically we can do that at AA with floated vacations but in reality it's not going to happen.
Reserves can work for extra pay/premium pay.
You'd trade to get airport standby back? Only UA has that and my buddy says they hate it.
No F time???
This is the better contract we should aspire to???