Originally Posted by
Stayontarget
I like that without needing to ask the scheduling managers for permission 3 days prior. Enough coverage however far out should be that same as dropping a trip as a line holder and the DDL.
Wouldn’t be that hard to get more days off if the reserve day was worth 4.5-5+ per day.
You could also encourage reserve to go more senior if it had more perks such as those listed above and something like greater of flightime or reserve obligation for the day. Nothing ****es me off more than working for more than 4 hours to get paid for four hours.
Making it go more senior also helps out our commuter friends so they can hopefully get more lines sooner and less hotel/crash pad obligations. I’m open to other ideas.
Th problem with your first paragraph is lineholders are not tied to a res grid and res I believe are?. If thier not you still really don’t want rdp clogging the grid so either way separate process. The last thing we want is to tie lineholder open time drop/swap/trade to a res grid. I’d be open to some other process that makes drop/swap/trade rdp easier because right now it’s not.
There is no value to a rdp. A drop cost you 4 credit. Making that credit higher and attaching a value to it would be something worth pursuing. Increasing the value would basically force more days off. The other way would be to lower guarantee on res schedules. Bad idea. That’s a give and you’ll never get equal value for it.
Forcing res to go more senior imo should be a goal. One way to do that is go from first in first out to seniority. Like almost anything else there is downside to that system. Jr pilots get abused. Something to contemplate come poling time.