Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
If you are going to change the reserve rules, which I'm all for, they need to apply to all categories not just a few. "Commuting is a choice" and "Reserve is a choice" seem to be parallel arguments. I don't agree with either statement. We have been over commuting ad nauseum and I won't go there any more. But you can use the same argument that reserve is not necessarlily a choice in the higher categories either. Look at 737 and 767 in LA (Los Angeles for those of you on the east coast!
), you could be living there and not be able to hold a line in either category. Same goes for SEA which just has widebody cats. Now your saying I have to move/change bases/downbid to get this deal? It'll never float.
Fire Away!!
Denny
No shooting here. I agree with your post, and especially the statement that any changes need to apply to all categories. We don't need to re-invent the wheel here, we just need to keep trying to make it better. So far, I like this reserve system a little bit better than the fNWA one for the sole reason that you never have to sit short call for more than 6 days. Under the NWA system I went 9 months where my category was never adaquatly staffed any nobody got long calls.
bringing the biddable RAP system over to this reserve would be an improvement (fNWA guys no what I'm talking about.) Not a secret, just too hard to give a short version. It would let commuters pick later start times without keeping guys who live in base from being able to start early on the first day if they wanted to.
There are many things that we can improve, but they should be for all reserves.