Originally Posted by Plane Ramrod

Sky:

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.