Originally Posted by
iceman49
Small point, but I think you meant the UPS policy of pos space for everyone would cost 24000 seats per year. The NW policy was if you had 2 backups and still could not get you to work...than they would pos space you over. The DL policy only works when you have lots of reserve...if the economy picks up and the percentage of reserves goes down....makes it much tougher to do the no commuting policy that effectively DL has.
Actually our policy is here guys this is what you must do. In the end it is the schedulers discretion. I have seen many guys get PSYed out of DFW. If they are short, they will find the seats. If not you will get sit at home and not get paid.
I agree, that giving that power to the scheduler make the policy non-uniform., but it is better than them not having it.
I like your policy better, but as the DALPA guys on here state, it is a policy and not contractual. I know that our new Vice-Chair in ATL is a commuter from TPA. A good commuting policy is a priority, as well as a few low no cost scheduling items. I would love to see your policy (at a min) become contractual. When I had to commute from DFW (not by choice) I would at time have to leave a day and a half prior to report because of all of the commuters. It is better now, but that just plain stinks.