Originally Posted by
Montu
.......Captainv: The utilization sucks, flat out. I can't remember how many days (at any point in the day starting my shift) that we needed a reserve to cover something, but I had "no one" to call out. Mind you, there were no less than ten long call window reserves that were on my sheet, but they were useless to me to cover anything. That's when I have to start dailing the phone to tag the inbound reserve, who thought he was on the last day of his four (or five, or six) day trip, and now has to go back out again. That "higher percentage" of reserves is a VERY inflated number.
I feel bad for y'all in scheduling - honestly. I've never gotten bent with a scheduler because just like everyone else, crap rolls downhill and on the Comair food chain you guys and gals are the dung beetles and so are we.....except we've got a working agreement that affords us protections. I don't know what the folks in planning are doing but the directives they receive certainly can't be helping you folks out and we could trace a lot of the issues all the way up the organizational chart.
On a similar note, I still can't understand why it is that with such an enormous percentage of pilots on reserve (even with LC1 & LC2) that we're burning through the entire list EVERY DAY. Are there that many displacements, sick calls and ferry flights?
As for the LC1/LC2....I can see where that doesn't help you staff when it's most needed, even the long call reservists are being used past 75 hours/month. And oh yeah...love the avatar. Maiden.