Originally Posted by
flycrj200
I think we burn through reserve so quickly because we have a lot of people on ready reserve. If you assign every available pilot a ready reserve on a particular day and the y are not used within the ready reserve window, they become useless. I’m not sure who decides on assigning ready reserve, but what they are essentially doing is changing the availability of a pilot from 14 hours to 6. You are cutting availability of reserve crews more than 50%. But what do I know? I’m just a furloughed pilot.
Here is part of the problem. So we have 5 ready reservists at the airport and 2 SC guys at home. The short call guys at home are suppose to be called before any ready reservist is given an assignment. The problem is that the company sees it as taking a delay by calling the SC guy and therefor uses the ready guy. I don't think that this is the way the contract is written.
Twice last year the company tried to junior man me as a line holder while there were not only reserves at home, but there was a ready at the airport. The chief told me that they liked to hold on to ready reservists early in the night in case they would be needed later. I laughed and then told him, that they couldn't junior man me with reserves available and then I told them that I would be at home and hung up the phone.
I remember a buddy of mine standing up at one of Fred's meetings just before the bankruptcy and asking why our reserve system isn't being used as a reserve system and why it's being used as another type of flexible line. Fred just replied that he wasn't going to reply to such an attack. An honest question and the CEO at the time wouldn't even talk about it.