Originally Posted by
Scoop
I just recently starting hearing griping about this on the line. I used to frequently bid reserve but have been bidding a line for at least a year now, since MSP lost HND, and the value of PB days plummeted. I am trying to understand this "rest' issue. Is this fairly a fairly accurate description of what is going on: Reserves will show positive on many days of the next month. The company then pre-posts rest and reserves available plummet to negative levels. But the company can remove the rest any time they want so reserves available is actually much greater than displayed.
I can see how this will screw Pilots over trying to change their schedules but I have also heard Pilots complaining about it causing seniority to be violated in trip assignments - senior Pilot getting a trip because junior Pilot was on rest. Now above in this thread I see a Pilot may have been bypassed for a GS due to rest. Are these legitimate issues?
Can someone please post the readers digest version of this for the line holders - many including me who have had no idea that this is happening.
Thanks Scoop
Everything you wrote is happening. Whats worse is there is no rhyme or reason to the process.
Takes 2 reserves in the 4 day bucket, same raw group. Junior has golden X day following the LC block (thus has pre-posted rest) while senior has a standard X day with no rest. Scheduling will assign a rotation to the senior pilot instead of pulling the rest (which isn’t required for legality) of the junior pilot. Now take that example but senior has 12 pilots junior to him all with rest, and he gets hit with the rotation assignment. You can see why people are so PO’d, especially senior pilots. And guess what, once scheduling runs out of pilots without pre-posted rest they will then go in and start assigning back to the junior pilots by removing the rest periods that supposedly couldn’t be removed when they gave the senior pilot the original assignment.
But even then sometimes right from the start they will go and remove rest to assign to a junior pilot and not touch the senior pilot. Sometimes if the senior pilot gets the assignment they will call scheduling and scheduling will switch the assignment to the junior pilot, but usually not. But sometimes they will, so again there is no consistency to the process.