Originally Posted by JetBlast77

A day of work is a day of work. I don’t care if it’s regular flying, vacation, sick leave, training, reserve….we should have one set min day for EVERYTHING. Period. How many other industries tell their employees that vacation days are worth less than work days? It’s ridiculous. I get paid less when I go to training then when I fly the line? If I go to training and my partner is a reserve doing a seat fill in, they are making 5 hours a day and I am only making 3.25??? and it’s MY training event??? ****??? This needs to be #1 on the list.

1. 20% raise on DOS, then 5% each year

2. FSB gone and all reserve days off are HDOs (including global)

3. Min 5 hours a day for everything (trips, vacation, reserve, training)

4. Max scheduled reserve 15 days a month at 75 hour guarantee

5. Me too clause where our rates must be at least 5% higher than whatever is negotiated by AA and DAL during the life of the contract.

If they want things like reserve early pickups on day 1, make it optional with add pay. If they want reserves to go down to 12 days off, make the extra 3 days optional with a higher guarantee. The company can include all the things they want, just make it OPTIONAL WITH ADD PAY. People will jump on it if and when it works for them.

But the #1 thing we need to focus on imo, is RESERVE COVERAGE. It affects everyone, both line holders and reserves. The company cannot continue to have the ability to change coverage numbers to whatever they want, whenever they want. If we want to improve our QOL, it has to start there.