Thread: ASA Open Time
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Old 01-21-2009 | 06:56 PM
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Since the block hours have been slowly decreasing over the past few months so has the opentime. A few months ago there would be open time all month. Heck I remember a little over a year ago when I was on reserve and there were so many trips in open time we could call scheduling and they might give you a trip. Lately by the first week there is nothing in opentime. At least on the FO side of the CR7 this has been the trend. Even during initial opentime there really isn't much to add to your line. After line completion there has been about 500hrs worth of trips. Not really enough to even keep another 20 guys employed with low blocked lines. I'm not sure what it has been on the CR2 and well..........we all got the memo on the ATR. My point is that it's not like they are working us to the bone to save some money. If no one picks up the opentime it would be enough to keep reserve guys flying about 25 hours a month. Some reserves are hardly flying at all.
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