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Anyway, it seems to me that we need to pull together to advance our overall position. We need to find a way to manuever the company into a place where they are staffed well enough for the QOL focused pilot to live a comfortable life; but are not so overstaffed that those who want to earn extra money can do so. Personally, I am a QOL seeker. I LOVE guys like JCdC because he works and I don't get the JA phone call. But I realize that an excessive amount of OT flying results in the company's refusal to staff well enough to allow my continued QOL. IOW, OT is good, up to the point that my vacation gets cancelled because we are short staffed.
Where does that leave us? For now (leaving room for further thought and reconsideration), I will propose a block hour cap. I believe that a pilot should be capped at 90 hours (prelim number, needs refinement) BLOCK. I don't really care if some smart pilot finds a way to credit 120 hours if he only flies 90. I choose the 90 hour block limit because it is the number that our nego team picked to be our line build cap. If we didn't already have the 90 hour number, I would have picked 85 as per C2003.
Management really hates to pay for more hours than are flown, but they are the ones making deals to pay double, not the pilot so I don't feel one bit sorry for them. From a staffing perspective, it doesn't matter how much the company paid to get the trip covered, and I believe that we (union members) should focus on coverage. If we fix coverage/staffing, and we ensure that premium pay goes out according to seniority, it really won't matter how much the "other" guy get's paid.
What say you?
Sky:Originally Posted by skybolt
OK, we all recognize that the TA and now ratified Contract is not optimal. Well maybe ARM thinks so, but he's always been that way. Anyway, it seems to me that we need to pull together to advance our overall position. We need to find a way to manuever the company into a place where they are staffed well enough for the QOL focused pilot to live a comfortable life; but are not so overstaffed that those who want to earn extra money can do so. Personally, I am a QOL seeker. I LOVE guys like JCdC because he works and I don't get the JA phone call. But I realize that an excessive amount of OT flying results in the company's refusal to staff well enough to allow my continued QOL. IOW, OT is good, up to the point that my vacation gets cancelled because we are short staffed.
Where does that leave us? For now (leaving room for further thought and reconsideration), I will propose a block hour cap. I believe that a pilot should be capped at 90 hours (prelim number, needs refinement) BLOCK. I don't really care if some smart pilot finds a way to credit 120 hours if he only flies 90. I choose the 90 hour block limit because it is the number that our nego team picked to be our line build cap. If we didn't already have the 90 hour number, I would have picked 85 as per C2003.
Management really hates to pay for more hours than are flown, but they are the ones making deals to pay double, not the pilot so I don't feel one bit sorry for them. From a staffing perspective, it doesn't matter how much the company paid to get the trip covered, and I believe that we (union members) should focus on coverage. If we fix coverage/staffing, and we ensure that premium pay goes out according to seniority, it really won't matter how much the "other" guy get's paid.
What say you?
I don't understand why I am paying 2% of my gross to an organization that wants to LIMIT my income. We already have a block hour cap at 100/mo. I can fly 1000 hours per year. If I fly 100 hours in January and 70 hours in February to get there, I don't see why it is anybody's business but mine.
ALPA had a tool in c2003 to require adequate staffing, (adequate as defined in 1999, I think it was in the original cba). I don't remember a grievance regarding the company falling below the 12% reserve coverage requirement on a rolling 12 month basis, so I assume ALPA and the company agreed 12% was adequate, and the company met that metric.
Also, I don't remember a grievance when scheduling started using the 'net reserve' number created by Sabre and not defined in the cba, to test the 10% coverage threshold for float, maybe you have more data on that than I do.
At any rate the 10% will go away once the red/green system is in place, giving the company COMPLETE DISCRETION over such transactions. I don't have the cba in front of me now, but does the 12% requirement still hold after red/green? I don't remember.
I would bet the avg line holder would work somewhere around 850 hours a year based on twelve 78 hour lines/yr minus 84 hours vacation. So your talking about a max of 150 hours/OTpilot/year. A drop in the bucket compared to what this CBA affords the company. This MEC/NC got caught up in a personal vendetta against a small percentage, and we are all paying for it. Again, please tell me where I am wrong.