Originally Posted by
BigZ
CRJ reserve FOs had a GroupMe thing set up for reserve day swaps, trades and such. The etiquette called for contacting the FO whose flying you are interested in appropriating, and then proceed with the other party's blessing. Or not. Guys would also advise of the assigned trips they were willing to part with in the same group. Worked pretty well, but the overall pilot group was small enough to where it was fairly personal, and constant over the months due to the lack of movement.
Exactly... thanks for sharing that... That's the kind of thinking we need around here.
We are heading for some dark times. We need things like that to pull together and help each other out. If we all just act like starving dogs and do douchebag things screwing each other over because it says we can in the contract and I have a PhD in DECS programming, this place is going to be absolutely miserable for most of us. Nobody knows how high up the furloughs will go and who will end up on perpetual airport standby when September ends.
Hopefully the douchebag with the all the extra OT and 25 days of reservecation will chip in a few bucks to our furlough GoFundMe page... probably not.