Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
I did ask a Delta pilot.
If you are a Delta pilot, I’ll ask you too. You got a reserve line. Say your guarantee is 75 hrs. Now regular open time opens up for line holders. Can you, as a reserve pilot, pick up any opentime trip on reserve day off, from the opentime pot and get paid over guarantee? Eg, pay from 75 hrs becomes 86 hrs pay for picking up a 2-day worth 11 hrs.
Because I’ve heard the answer to that is no.
deleted my post yesterday but feel it’s time to set the story straight.
DAL pilots cannot pickup straight open time while in reserve month. This is a good thing. If I’m reserve I want more pay and same time off I had before if I pickup. Ability to pickup straight time open as reserve is a race to the bottom. More work, more pay…awesome. Except at DAL by blocking this, we do…
Allow reserve pilot to pickup “green slips” on days off. This pays above guarantee and also gives the reserve pilot their next reserve block of days “payback days”.
seems like you’re fishing on this one. Straight pickup as reserve might work for a few but the delta system works for the whole group.
I would hate to see open time pickups as a reserve for straight pay above guarantee without restoring time off later. It would increase productivity immensely and decrease the amount of jobs we have overall fairly dramatically.