Originally Posted by
mkfmbos
I have an interview coming up. 7k tt 1500 TPIC on A320. I work overseas. I don't need another minute of airbus time on my resume and I'm ASSuming that I don't need the practice. Now for the question:
If I join I'll be on McDonalds fry cook pay for a year on reserve and then McDonalds fry cook Manager pay year two. I keep hearing that you can drop your entire reserve schedule. How does that work? Do I still get paid my minimum? On 3k a month, with two kids, and not living in base, a crashpad would be impossible. If I took the job, pending the offer of course, I would rely on the fact that I can basically take the first year off and not have to worry about a crashpad. Is this possible, or am I reaching. Otherwise I could hold out for a better job that may never come. I don't need the "don't come to Spirit" rhetoric. Facts are appreciated.
IF you could drop all your reserve, you lose pay with each drop, leaving you zero hours pay.
You won’t be able to drop it all.
Reserve drop limits are currently a discussion point in negotiations; management wanting zero reserve drops and the union wanting drops allowed from days on the outside of blocks only, on one reserve “block” of days for the month. So neither side is pushing for the entire “drop the month of reserve.” Which is fine because it can’t be done anyways.
And then there is the nightmare of consolidation of knowledge which requires you to fly your 100 hours in 120 days, or back to the sim you go. And if you don’t have your consolidation of knowledge, you’ll be called out first on reserve on the days you can’t drop, all trying to get 100 hours in 120 days.
You can see where this is going...nowhere, fast.
Best of luck in your search but this won’t be the fit you seek.