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Old 11-11-2009 | 03:54 AM
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Originally Posted by LOBO
Can a pilot in an international category that has domestic flying for the month be put on domestic short call i.e. 12 hours instead of 24 hours?

In NYC or ATL if you have one day of reserve either do to the end of the month or MLOA can you be assigned a short call of only 12 hours instead of 24 hours?

Lobo, it was one of my desires to have Scheduling identify on a daily basis a domestic reserve and a international reserve. 24 hr of SC is just plain crazy, and the simple fact is that we have had a few guys call in fatigued in the second half of the window.
Most would like to think that you are at home sipping your Tea, or sleeping until the second the phone rings. Once it does you are up, rested, shaved, showered and out the door prior to hanging up the phone. That is just not the case, and we do get fatigued on SC.

It was one thing that one of our new C44 CA reps and I discussed as a low or no cost item going forward.

Things I would also like see addressed is/are:
-Credit for SC
-Lineholder trip credit for reserves
-No suit up pay, it should just be DPM
-training pay is DPM
-seniority on SC. Ie you can fill up if you so choose earlier in the month, but as a quid you cannot break guarantee at your request, it would have to be done via yellow slips.
-We go to a calendar day not a duty period for DPM. (Gets rid of these three days worth 12 hrs that end in a redeye.
-Reserve LOT bidders are on a month to month basis put in seniority order and then assigned their days of reserve so that unstacking will occur in this seniority bucket not the bucket of the entire seat. (What this does is allows the senior reserve bidders a better chance of getting what they want off, not what works the best for the computer)
-The ability for senior guys on reserve to pass on trips if they so choose.

All of this sucks for junior guys, which I am one, but seniority needs to mean something on reserve.