Originally Posted by
El Peso
About the LCW +/- 7 hours making it possible to build a schedule to 93 hours 4 times a year? Yes you’re right. I didn’t mean to say it’s impossible. If I did I’ll take the L. I’m trying to say that’s not what our typical schedules are or will be like.
Also with respect to averages and many pilots having high times schedules that like you at 88 hours. Well then for the averages to be in the 82 hour range, do you not concede that many pilots would also have to have low time schedules as well? To bring those averages down to 82, we obviously have many pilots with 75 hour lines as well. Why not mention those pilots? See you can be pretty hardline yourself. You claimed that our new RO was actually worse because you always used non mutual decline of RO to get out of it. 10 times as I recall. I have a hard time believing you have 10 NS on you record and have never heard from the flight office, but that’s just my suspicion.
And the idea that a high time line is bad, and low time line is good is totally subjective. You might want a low time line. That doesn't mean it’s what the next guy wants.
A NS for RO decline is not subject to discipline. I could have done it 100 times and not received a call.
Directly from the compass project:
If the Company does not mutually agree to the pilot’s decline of Replacement Flying, the removal code will be NS (No-Show). NS is a non-disciplinary code which removes pay, but retains the credit of the Replacement Flying sequence (this will block the pilot from pickup within the NS footprint).
The bottom lineholder in CLT on the 320 is #554. From there to #454 28 pilots were awarded schedules with more than 88 hours with 17 greater than 90 hours. 49 pilots were on reserve. 50+% of bottom lineholders in that cherry picked(I chose it because off the top of my head it is the largest status) seat have schedules greater than 88 hours. 60% of THOSE pilots greater than 90 hours. Yes the averages are brought down by the senior pilots getting lower time awards. There are still many, many pilots flying high that have no interest doing it and no way to change it other than calling in sick. None of this was addressed in our current TA.
Some pilots want to fly high time, I agree with that. The difference is if you want to fly low time you can be forced to fly high. If a high time flyer receives a low time schedule that he did not bid that pilot can just pick up more time.