Originally Posted by
TOGALOCK
You can also tag your last day off before reserve days, or your first day off after reserve days as VDO. The company can call you on that day if they need you, but you’re under no obligation to accept a trip. If you don’t like the trip they have, or have changed your mind, you can say “no”.
If you VDO your last day off before, say, a 3 day block of reserve days and scheduling calls you on your VDO for a 4 day trip, that entire trip will pay out at 150%. Even over your original reserve days.
for VDO on last day off what you said was accurate.. for VDO on your first day off after block of rsv days is not.
Dangers of VDO on your first day off is that you CANT say no if assigned a trip over that VDO while currently on reserve AND the 150% only applies to the VDO days.
5-E-8-a VDO - A Reserve may convert his days off to VDO. When a Reserve is contactable (i.e., he is required to be phone available), he may not withdraw the conversion at the time of assignment or between 1100 and 1400. If the Company actually disrupts a VDO(s), the Reserve shall receive fifty percent (50%) Add Pay for all scheduled Flight Time and Deadhead Time on and after the VDOs through and including the day the Trip ends (including reserve days), with a minimum Add Pay of two hours and thirty minutes (2:30) per disrupted VDO, averaged across all disrupted VDOs in the trip on an ‘hours’ basis. If the disruption was allowable without the conversion to VDO, the Pilot shall not receive such Add Pay for that day or days.