I’ve seen a lot of concern about losing the ability to drop to 0 with Frontiers contract but our min of 60 can be fairly lucrative as well. I had a big example of mine typed up but it was confusing out of context. In short, I started the month with 85 hours in my base MCO but ended the month with 60 in LAS and DEN, didn’t fly a single trip in MCO, and had 22 days off. Oh and I’m still on probation and that was the first month I could hold a line. Buuuuut I hope we keep the 0 hour clause. Sounds cool.

Also with reserve. Yes it’s pretty easy to manipulate your schedule. It has become more difficult as we become short on crews but you can, subject to limitations, swap reserve days, drop reserve days, pick up open time on days off, aggressive reserve (pick up open time trips while on reserve the day prior to their beginning), and get released early. It’s not perfect and I have ideas to improve it but it’s not too bad.


I really hope we stand together and fight to make this place awesome. The prospective seniority lists that circulated today were based on relative % and DOH. I only was 16# apart from each method. In short I (mostly) don’t care how they integrate as long as we keep growing. That will only happen if we take the best of both contracts and make this place the envy of our competition. I look forward to Frontspears continued success.