Originally Posted by
PackPilot
OAL guy here with a question about your next contract. Are you guys using negotiating capital to try to get some improvements to reserve? I'm wondering specifically about LCR (my understanding is you are mostly doing SCR on reserve now) with perhaps a longer callout time, and maybe the option to only need one flight to commute if on company metal. I would love to work for United but wouldn't be able to move to a base. However both EWR and IAD would be a fairly easy commute, especially if I was able to bid LCR. Thanks!
FWIW, the union took a survey of pilots before the negotiations started and used that as a basis for negotiations. The actual goals are only known to the MEC and the negotiators. Nothing specific has been made public, other than the union was looking for "improvements."
As I type this, there is
already agreement with the company in the sections covering reserve.
We won't know anything factual about changes to the reserve sections, if any, until there is agreement on all the sections and it's released to a vote.