Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
Its still very fleet/seniority/seat dependent.
Look at the Boston 320 CA list any given day. 15+ folks on it and the top 10 on it are top 20% (17+ years) in the company. If you’ve been here less than 12-15 years in that position you really aren’t ever getting called. Ever. For those folks though, weekly call sometimes twice.
Right seat or 190 in a large base. Plenty of work.
This is why we need an overhaul of the VDA system. The same 5-10 pilots in every base/seat shouldn’t get all the VDA all the time. I haven’t confirmed it but I’ve heard some carriers do it differently and more evenly spread around. It was described to me as a bucket system once you’ve had a VDA you move to the 1 VDA for the month bucket, once a 2nd VDA call the 2 VDA bucket and do on. Hence it spreads the VDA’s across more of the seniority. Correct me if I’m wrong but it’s kind of BS that 5 pilots in every base/seat credit 150hrs plus per month, while the rest of us get a call every 3 months or so.