Originally Posted by
FlyPurdue
I agree with you that there are worse options out there, but what is bothersome is the lack of common sense reserve rules. 'If' we are going to do the seniority reserve system - allow a senior reserve to 'appropriate' from a junior reserve. Allow a proffer to put equal weight on Trips, RAPs, and STBYs, and let my seniority dictate what I get (if that's what the pilot group wants). Talk to ExpressJet guys if you want to hear about efficient and reasonable reserve rules.
This combined with our overnight hotels, current pay rates, and general inefficient schedules and QOL should have prospective Envoy pilots really trying to decide if this is their best option.
Expressjet has a great contract, no doubt about that.
There are a few things in our contract that crew scheduling doesn't know about or care. For example, if you get called for a flight you don't want, you can skip as long as a senior guy to you agrees and has the same amount of reserve days available as you do. Or that as a commuter you can list yourself to get all additional flying you are legal for before they call anyone from home.
We also have appropriation which is good, and we can also protect our trips from being appropriated, which is even better. We also have the IT systems so we can see everything that happens to make sure our assignments are legal and done in the right order (CS _SUCKS_ with this).