Originally Posted by
SoFloFlyer
This would be convenient, but it would take away from premium.
Ex.: You’re R07 and commute. You see a trip in OT that would hav you report by 8:30. Let’s also say that if you pick up that trip, you’ll have 2 flights to get you in to be protected by the commuter policy. In this case you, you’d win.
But if the current system stayed as is, a pilot could’ve gotten it on the XY List and you continue to sit reserve.
Which one is better? Not entirely sure, but I do know that these types of items are behavioral items and that’ll need to be addressed in the JCBA. We’ll have to decide as a collective group how we want life to look like at post merger JB while on reserve.
yeah but what you’re forgetting in most cases there’s more than enough reserves to cover the trip the main difference being the one who wouldn’t be legal for it may prefer that trip where as the one who would get the call may not care or even would prefer not to fly at all.
when we aren’t in irops there’s maybe 1 or 2 premium calls a day in any particular base for the right seat. The left does have more. It might reduce premium by a small percent. But if all you’re doing is taking one reserve and moving him to a different rap you have one less reservist for the rap they were assigned. Another trip could pop up during that rap with one less person to cover it causing it to go premium. Premium are very much right time right place situations. They sporadically pop up and only in an irops can you see that list grow rapidly.
trips left in OT rarely go premium. It’s usually assigned to a reserve anyways. It’s day of trips where someone called out or operational issues that cause a lack of crew where those go premium.