My bad. I meant Feburary. I keep mixing it up the live PBS start date with our mock bid for February.

There is near zero open time for SEA in the last mock bid which of course was for February. Not May. Whoops.

 

Furloughs? Is that cost effective? Can it be done when UA and DAL are still hiring? How would that impact AS hiring going forward? I think we both know the answer to all that.

I'm not sure we are looking at the same report? Scroll to the bottom of the award and it is listed at the bottom of the report as Open time 1. 14 hours total in open for CA and 10 for FOs, in SEA.

 

I’m not in Seattle so we aren’t looking at the same report.

 

Just wondering which report you were looking at?? Or are you just making stuff up because no one here seems to try to seek out factual information before they just believe someone that "open time that was left over in my base is about what it always is after OF lines are awarded"? I know a lot of AS pilots on the internal forum got away with making recession forecasts that still haven't come to fruition almost 2 years after we voted and no one seems to care. However I feel it's pretty sad that not onlywhat you claim needs to be corrected but few would bother to check to see if it is absolutely false or not. So I checked for everyone reading:


Open Time




ANC:

CA 3 trips 32.5

FO 4 trips 60.5


LAX:


CA 12 trips 100hrs

FO 6 trips 45hrs

PDX

CA 2 trips 27 hrs

FO 0 trips 0 hrs

SEA


CA 2 trips 14 hrs

FO 1 trip 10.5 hrs

SFO

CA 0 trips 0 hrs

FO 4 trips 34 hrs

 

No, furloughs aren’t cost effective for 2 months. What seems to be cost effective is allowing pilots to take paid time off and pay reserves guarantee which they most likely won’t fly up to. I’d say even more cost effective than a scenario of a senior pilot bidding reserve and being able to credit 110 hours while only flying 40 hours.

 

Yep, you got it. In my base it’s about the same as it has been for a while. We have an abundance of FO’s so a lot of the leftover trips after step trading have been going into open flying lines. Open time usually starts with 3 or 4 garbage trips. Eventually things get going though as people drop a few things. So not false?

 

I don't know what your base is but I know that for SEA it's dramatically less.

 

I don't know the base you are talking about and the only base I regularly check is my own, SEA. The open time remaining in my base under PBS is vastly different than months past.

I spoke about this issue with a PBS volunteer at length and they didn't seem to be concerned. Although they were senior enough it wouldn't affect them.

 

Feb is also the low point for the amount of flying we have. I don’t feel like Feb will be representative of the remaining months, especially summer.

 

Agreed. It's also why we aren't seeing any unstacking. We also don't know how the unstacking levels will work. Is it 50% if you have a holiday day on your schedule or if there are holidays in the month?