Originally Posted by
AltoCumulus
If you start your zone at 6pm is it realistic to expect to be off at midnight? What about the day you come back? Should you start your zone at midnight, or do you expect to be able to be off most of your first day at work? So you start at 1700 on day 1 Andrew end at midnight on day 5 which effectively means that if you aren’t used by day 4 you can just go home. That sounds like about 3 full days of reserve. Sure, we could negotiate that, but that would come with a high negotiating cost
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You may not think we deserve to be treated as human beings but many of us do. Just because Brad and Ben have been lining the shareholders pockets with the help of the most productive pilots in the industry doesn't mean we need to give up before the fight has even begun. Spirit and JetBlue both have calendar day language. Here's JetBlue's:
A Long Call Reserve Pilot on his last day of a Reserve block
without an assigned Pairing shall be auto-released at 0800 Base
local time.
ii. A Short Call Reserve Pilot on his last day of a Reserve block,
without an assigned Pairing, shall be auto-released six (6) hours
after RAP start or 1700 Base local time, whichever is earlier.