Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
I haven’t seen anyone quitting to go back to these so called regionals with better reserve.... Short call is what short call is, I guess everyone just thinks they should sit around and no nothing but still be paid. Your job as a reserve pilot is to be there waiting for the phone to ring... If it doesn’t that’s great if it does you go to work. Every month of short call was 50-60 hours or less for me and when I did a month of LC under the Virgin rules Iit was terrible. I’m not seeing any changes under the new Alaska SC to cry nearly as much about as you do. The longer RAP does suck but it hasn’t changed how much I’ve blocked on any given month. I JS a ton and everything we complain about at AS seems to be about the same as what I hear from junior guys at UA or AA. The hours off comment hasn’t ever held any weight for me either so what gives? Are you just one of the countless miserable coworkers that I’ve come across now that Alaska is the new boss? Do you think your life is going to be night and day different at whatever new airline you’re going to?
It's not "having to work" that people are upset about, you dunce, it's having to commute in the night before and then being used until the middle of the night on the last day. It's only getting 12 days off (if the hours thing doesn't apply - congrats if that's the case for you, everyone else I've talked to has been hosed by that). It's not being able to self-assign without exact day match. It's the 14hr RAP that you can't swap. ETC ETC ETC. Ask yourself - are you willing to take the first upgrade your seniority can hold and live under these rules for 10 years? Or would you rather have rules that are decent enough that reserve goes senior? (DAL, JBU, others)
EVERY person that commutes to reserve at AS that I've talked to in real life HATES their life. That is ass-backwards compared to other majors. Get your head out of the sand or you're part of the problem.
And guess what - people literally have left for regionals. And also downgraded themselves because reserve sucks so much.