Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
I said commuting to reserve sucks. As in, commuting to then sit around xx amout of days away from your family hoping for a phone call and maybe flying. Maybe some people like it, I absolutely hated spending 5 days in a crashpad without flying. Although if you are constant LCR who can only be converted a couple times per month, then maybe more of reserve can be spent at home. To each their own.
AS reserve sucks. It's barely tolerable living 30 minutes from the airport. I can't imagine how guys do it commuting to reserve here. The AS contract was clearly constructed for a pilot group that predominantly lives in base. Anyone coming in should do their due diligence/homework. What you wrote sounds like a really awesome reserve style/setup. But if anything thinks we at AS are gonna go from AS reserve rules to all of that stuff you just wrote for our contract 2020, they're in for a sore disappointment.
Ahhhh yes.... the timeless “They’ll never give us that!”... defeatist argument. And.... I get it!!! Kasher evisceration in 08.... management infiltration of the Union in subsequent years... and a whole boat load VSP’rs. Hoping that between the VXrs (a lot of whom this ain’t their first rodeo), commuters, and new hires (within the last 4 years) we can set a new course. If you can’t negotiate a great contract in this environment.... then you won’t ever.