Originally Posted by
beis77
If the company was serious about saving money, they’d put most (if not all) pilots on reserve. I’m not suggesting people would like it, and I don’t know if there are contractual limitations preventing the company from doing so. But at ALV-2 and no assigned trips to pay protect, they would give themselves increased flexibility from a scheduling standpoint to not string all this crap together and call it a rotation. I realize that 23K is pretty much like functional reserve, but it’s not quite as efficient, and the company is still burning up premium pay as well when they can’t cover. I believe that increasing the number of reserves and decreasing regular lines would help them out in the near term until they get scheduling under control.
Hmm. What if they offered a 55-hr SIL to the pilot group? That would be cheaper than putting people on an ALV-2 schedule.
Nawwwww! That would be silly.