Originally Posted by
dba74
Please educate me about "quarantines". If you mean guarantee, then tell me what our new minimum monthly guarantee is in the TA. P.S. I already know the answer. It's exactly the same: 75.00 hours/ month. The rig does very little in that you get paid 1 hour of block for every 2 hours of duty, i.e. 6 hours of block on a 12 hour duty day. Most of our existing block/ duty ratios are already this way. I want a good guarantee AND rig AND hourly pay. We are being offered none of these. I am trying to raise the bar for ASA and the industry and I would appreciate if you all would do the same. Even if you like the TA, vote no, and they will improve it even more.
Min daily guarantee of 3:45, daily duty 2:1 with 1:1 over 12 hours. These are MIN guarantees!
You should be able to figure it out! Don't be naive and think this will not affect you when you hold a line or break guarantee. As far as the 75 hours is concerned................do you really not understand its purpose?
It has no bearing on line holders other than the minimum a line should be created to, it's truly there for reserves? That's why it's called a guarantee! It’s there so reserves can be paid a guaranteed amount if they don’t fly. If you’re a line holder and you drop trips causing your credit to be below the guarantee then you voluntarily forfeit your rights to the guarantee.
With these guarantees your average pairing will net 1+ hours of additional credit dependent upon its length.
BTW, what would a stand-up pay at ASA?
Say 12:52 duty on 4 hours of block? With your guarantees it will pay 6:52.
Next month we have MEM stand-ups that credit 6:44 on 2:50 block and you get 8:54 of rest. Now that's a great stand up, bid it 5 times in a row and get 33:10 credit on 13:40 block. If you want, bid it twelve times (month) for a total of 80:48 credit on 34 hrs of block and get 18-19 days off. Just an example!