If you took 5 years to upgrade, it's likely that the bonuses did not exist when you were hired.

 

I think that’s the point of their whining.

 

Is there specific logic that crew scheduling uses when they determine who to call next on the reserve list? Or is there any contractual process they have to go through to determine who to call? Considering how many people are on short call, I think they need to be very clear about why they are calling who they are. Anyone have thoughts on this? Thanks!

 

“Assignment of Flying to Reserves
A trip will not be assigned to an SC reserve pilot sooner than the day before the scheduled departure of the trip. However, the trip will remain posted in open time, and the trip will be awarded to any pilot who is legal to take the trip up until 1500 Central Time on the day prior to the trip. After 1500 Central Time, the trip may be awarded to a non-reserve pilot at the discretion of Crew Services. Prior to a trip that has been published in open time being assigned to a reserve pilot, Crew Services will verify that no prior requests to pick up the trip have previously been submitted.”

and

”After the Initial Award of Open Time (as described in paragraph I., above), open flying will be awarded or assigned in the following order of priority:
a. At the Company’s discretion, a green pilot, a pilot in need of consolidation, or a pilot who must be paired with a check airman.
b. A pilot with a Long Call (LC) day(s) on his line. This includes pilots with Long Call on their schedule for any reason.
c. A pilot who has expressed a desire to add a specific trip(s), provided the pilot has submitted his request to add trips in writing, in accordance with paragraph K., above.
d. A reserve pilot, in accordance with paragraph K., above, who has expressed a desire to add trips in writing, first to pilots in domicile, and then to out-of-domicile pilots.
25.30

e. A management pilot, or a pilot removed from flight duty for an entire bid period for the purpose of instruction or Company-designated special assignment, at the Company’s option, but not before 1800 Central Time two (2) days from the scheduled departure of the trip.
f. A reserve pilot who is scheduled for reserve duty, but not before 1500 Central Time on the day before the scheduled departure of the trip, first to pilots in domicile, and then to out-of-domicile pilots.
g. The most junior qualified pilot available which will be determined by calling all pilots in reverse seniority order (first to pilots in domicile, then to out-of-domicile pilots), but no sooner than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the scheduled departure of the trip.”

TLDR; when it comes to short call, they can pick whoever is most convenient. We made some gains on aggressive reserve pickup and publishing the reserve lists on the last contract, maybe we should’ve pushed a little harder.

 

Has anyone heard anything about July/August plans since the company posted the vacancies with downgrades, and the union sent a response email to us being like "here are all the questions we have..." Have any of those been answered? I don't know if I'm going to be paid at FO rate again or not. I'm assuming so, but it would fantastic to hear for sure. And apparently it's never been confirmed that the company got CARES money? It's been like two weeks. Why hasn't there been any follow up?

 

Downgrade means just that.. CA down to FO, including pay. Care money only protects pay until Oct 1st. Companies can downgrade and offer voluntery leave. Come Oct 1st anything is a go!

 

Company did receive something to the tune of 40 mil.

 

When did they send this email? I'm not seeing anything.

 

Not sure if this will doubt post as I don't see my previous response, but did the union send an email out recently about this? I haven't seen anything.

 

ACMI is not for everyone, but definitely hiring and may offer another route to your eventual destination while this slowdown works itself out. While the Big 3 will undoubtedly reshape itself into another form it’s not a bad place to holdout while chairs are being scrambled about. Several Trans States and Compass folks have a class date or in class from what I’ve heard. Just endorsing a way to stay current in the industry for now. Can’t tell you how cargo will pan out later this year, but everything seems to be a gamble. Once again, ACMI isn’t for everyone but some love it, some hate it but it pays the bills and sometimes quite a bit more.