Originally Posted by
El Peso
Ok sure. What’s the holiday pay at UAL? It’s 200% at AA. What’s the ACD at UAL, 5:00? It’s 5:15 at AA. And don’t you guys use reserves to seat fill in the sim? That’s a non starter around here.
And I’m sure there’s things that are better at UAL, like profit sharing etc, but the point is that this idea that you have some superior contract over there is delusional. Sounds like you have much better trip ownership, but as your compadre explained above, it comes at a very hefty cost. Field Standby. No thanks. All one has to do is look at your vacancies that are constantly going unfilled these days. That tells me all I need to know about what’s it’s like to be junior in your seat at UAL. I can just about guarantee the you won’t see wide body jobs or Captain jobs go unfilled at AA, because it doesn’t suck to be junior.
How does that min credit affect combined with RIG actually affect your pay? For example, at UAL, the only fleet @ EWR that averaged less than 5:15 on any trip type in Jan was the 756 5-day pairings which averaged 5:14. Every other fleet had higher min credit. The 320 even had 5:26 for it's 4 day pairings.
Yes, reserves at United can be used for the sim. I'd like to see the last time that this went to a non-volunteer DEN local, though, if not to a PI reserve. It's easy money for a lineholder in DEN to pickup. This isn't something being shoved down some FL commuter's throat. When I was on reserve years ago, as a commuter, I much preferred FSB over SC, which is a pretty common preference. At the airport for 4 hours vs being on the hook in a crash pad for 10. No thanks.
Our vacancies going unfilled has more to do with the change in relative seniority and downgrade of control vs the payoff. Maybe at AA vacation & specific days off isn't based on relative seniority, but at United it is.