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09-11-2025 | 11:31 AM
#71
Gets Weekends Off
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APA should create an IMAX service where you opt in and they handle it on their end. You just show up to work the trips they've got on there for you. I'd do it.
09-11-2025 | 12:10 PM
#72
Line Holder
Joined: Mar 2024
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FWIW I've been here ~12 years and have 520 hours in combined banks, but I don't have kids at home making me sick.
I do agree with self repair, total BS to burn 20-30 hours sick on a 4 or 5 day trip when you could work again sometime during it. I know there was some reason AA management was against it, but the reason escapes me now.
I do agree with self repair, total BS to burn 20-30 hours sick on a 4 or 5 day trip when you could work again sometime during it. I know there was some reason AA management was against it, but the reason escapes me now.
09-12-2025 | 08:54 AM
#74
Down goes Frazier
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From: AB FO
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09-12-2025 | 09:32 AM
#75
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Joined: Dec 2011
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From: A320 FO
Yeah sounds about right. Probably matching pay/credit and multiple duty periods extended past 12h with 11-12h rest. Those type of sequences go to the junior reserves—which is why they’re all complaining about being burned out while their Reserve Days Worked for the month are floating around 11-13. That sequence should be an easy fatigue call out by day 3.
1:1 pay for duty periods extended past 10h—problem solved. They could also push for a minimum daily guarantee SWA style without the AM/PM trip construction, but that would require APA to lead the way for once (specifically regarding lineholders rules), which will never happen. Those industry leading LTD benefits though…
1:1 pay for duty periods extended past 10h—problem solved. They could also push for a minimum daily guarantee SWA style without the AM/PM trip construction, but that would require APA to lead the way for once (specifically regarding lineholders rules), which will never happen. Those industry leading LTD benefits though…
You hit the nail on the head. That's why reserve feels so awful. Juniors get called often, not every single day, but when they do it's to fly the trash nobody else will touch with a 10' pole.
Who's right? The union says the 10 hour rig would push us towards longer trips. My solution, if onerous trips are a necessity, is to make them 2 days. 3 leg days pretty much suck but if it's a 2 day at least it ends quickly and you get more nights in your bed.
09-12-2025 | 10:06 AM
#76
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Yeah sounds about right. Probably matching pay/credit and multiple duty periods extended past 12h with 11-12h rest. Those type of sequences go to the junior reserves—which is why they’re all complaining about being bu[rned out while their Reserve Days Worked for the month are floating around 11-13. That sequence should be an easy fatigue call out by day 3.
I remember being at the regionals and everyone was like "just make it mainline with mainline pay". Now that mainline has absorbed a lot of regional flying, "we don't want that flying anyway".
09-12-2025 | 10:43 AM
#77
On Reserve
Joined: Oct 2023
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Scope was a great late 90's early 2000's rallying cry, but in reality, few missed that flying and then everyone proceeded to craft their work rules assuming that flying would never return. For us, that flying, combined with ACD means the whole system needs a reboot.
[sarcasm]But thank God we got rid of slash trips![/sarcasm]
09-12-2025 | 10:44 AM
#78
Down goes Frazier
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From: AB FO
09-12-2025 | 10:55 AM
#79
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Joined: Jun 2017
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The vast majority of trips in my base start and/or end with a day exactly like that. I bid as many 1-1s and turns as I can, but there are so many more trips exactly like what you’ve described that you’ll inevitably end up with a couple on your award.
Must be fixed.
09-12-2025 | 11:51 AM
#80
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From: B747 FO
This isn’t even slightly exaggerated either.
The vast majority of trips in my base start and/or end with a day exactly like that. I bid as many 1-1s and turns as I can, but there are so many more trips exactly like what you’ve described that you’ll inevitably end up with a couple on your award.
Must be fixed.
The vast majority of trips in my base start and/or end with a day exactly like that. I bid as many 1-1s and turns as I can, but there are so many more trips exactly like what you’ve described that you’ll inevitably end up with a couple on your award.
Must be fixed.
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