Originally Posted by
Aero1900
I agree. I do not think that a few premium trips indicate any understaffing at all.
I need to grab my iPad and read the contract, but I believe it's set up to create a lot of premium trips. Anything that falls into open time after reserves are assigned trips following aggressive reserve goes into premium, right?
I remember thinking, while reading the TA, that we should see a fair amount of trips drop into the premium folder.
And unless reserves are flying more than 50 or 60 hours a month, we ain't under staffed
Correct. That didn’t change. The new agreement just eliminated 1.25% and made it a free for all on the 1.5%. Basically relieved crew scheduling from having to make a bunch of phone calls. Those phone calls were a major driver of disputes as they tended to make mistakes frequently. Some mistakes were due to lack of contractual knowledge and some due to the language itself (gray areas). IMO it’s better now that we took crew scheduling out of the loop on premium. All they can do now is add inc. which is a good thing.
Last edited by fcoolaiddrinker; 05-16-2019 at 06:45 AM.