Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
But with this change the company can assign you no more SC than they already have the ability to assign. Less time on SC is a net positive, no matter how determined some of you are to find the black lining in a silver cloud.
And if guys get a LC assignment three hours sooner, who cares? LC assignments are quite civilized. SC not so much. I still take your logic and spin it the other way: do you think that longer SC windows would be a net positive? I'm guessing most guys on reserve would not agree with that.
I guess the real issue is...let's see how this all ends up after a few months before we draw any conclusions. Remember "all reserves will sit 7 SC a month and fly 99 hours!" It didn't exactly end up that way did it?
so let's assume there are 15 pilots a day on short call, with this change it requires more pilots per day to be on short call and because of that you will sit more short calls than you have been if you weren't already maxing them out. Again, the scheduling committee has said this is a win for the company in terms of productivity gains. Instant gratification for the pilot sure, but overall not a win.