Originally Posted by
brocklee9000
I set up the parking FSA but with $0 for now. I’ll collect the $36/month and use it to help offset parking a little bit for stuff like IOE, hoping for a transfer home by the time/shortly after hitting the line. If not, I’ll start deducting into the FSA for commuter parking. Right now I’m in the conundrum where LAS is a 5hr drive or 1hr flight, which is why I’m hoping I get PHX this next cycle and maybe don’t have to deal with the commute more than a month.
That LAS parking sounds ridiculous, but unfortunately not a stranger to that after dealing with PHX parking for years. Using exclusive employee lots, which are never even remotely near limits, they just decided (out of the blue) to start issuing fines for parking more than 4 days. God forbid you get extended to a day off on a 4 day; called out on a 5-6 day out of base reserve assignment; etc. It was a whole thing for a while, to the point where company legal said don’t even reply to them, we’ll handle it. They ran home like a schoolyard bully, still having to get the last word and emphasizing the looming threat of fine/tow. They even went so far as to say being gone while attending recurrent wasn’t “directly supporting the blah blah blah business of Sky Harbor” so watch out. I’d see them out there all the time. Crawling around to read plates of cars that back into spots, and also ripping the car covers off (the ones people put to keep the sun, rain, and dust off their cars esp in the summer) to check plates, lazily leaving them to flap around attached to one bumper. Terrible parking office.
//////// NEW HIRES THIS IS IMPORTANT\\\\\\\ Make your parking election BEFORE THE DATE LISTED ON THE BASE AWARD! If you don't the company will say tough titty and you will be SOL and paying for your own parking. The only remedy is to transfer out and then back into your base if you miss the drop dead date. This has really screwed so many pilots, it should be another thing "fixed in the next contract". The election is made on a form in the Ipad. If you can't find it and nobody else will help PM me or anyone on this forum and we'll set you straight. I'd hate to see anyone f'd over this stupid bear trap.