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08-19-2011, 03:15 PM
#391
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 167
Your Boss that came from Ryan, he was an accountant in a previous life. He knows money.
Try to connect with some Ryan pilots who worked at Ryan under their first contract from 2000-2004, or even before then. Ask them about your boss and the promises made during company road shows about how “we won’t really enforce that” or “don’t worry”.
Without specific language with the words like will or must, he has all the wiggle room he needs.
120 mile gateways. How is that defined? By point to point mileage using an internet mapping site, or drawing a circle around your house. Draw a 120 statute mile circle around Queens, New York. Now you can fly out of LaGuardia, and then fly back into Philly, Newark, Newburgh, Hartford, JFK, Islip and find your way back to LaGuardia?
How many airports within 120 miles of Long Beach? What is the defined minimum level of service from a Gateway airport. One turboprop flight a day?
Taking a bid block of say 28 days. Do you have minimum and maximum number of blocks of days on and off?
So you have this:
10 on / 10 off / 8 on
9 on / 10 off / 9 on
6 on / 3off / 6 on / 3 off / 6 on / 4off
The first two lines go senior, and go over guarantee. The third line sits in Bangor doing inside domestic turns and never breaks guarantee. If you don’t have min max block protection, you will see it.
How is your flying assigned? Is it built into the lines, or are your lines all reserve? If there is no base, how is flying assigned, to company favorites, or Hi time Low time? Hard to get that pay raise to work if you don’t go over guarantee while other guys are killing it.
What is your furlough protection? By straight seniority? By seat? By equipment type? Does the 5 year DC10 FO get the axe before the newhire 777 Captain?
Try to connect with some Ryan pilots who worked at Ryan under their first contract from 2000-2004, or even before then. Ask them about your boss and the promises made during company road shows about how “we won’t really enforce that” or “don’t worry”.
Without specific language with the words like will or must, he has all the wiggle room he needs.
120 mile gateways. How is that defined? By point to point mileage using an internet mapping site, or drawing a circle around your house. Draw a 120 statute mile circle around Queens, New York. Now you can fly out of LaGuardia, and then fly back into Philly, Newark, Newburgh, Hartford, JFK, Islip and find your way back to LaGuardia?
How many airports within 120 miles of Long Beach? What is the defined minimum level of service from a Gateway airport. One turboprop flight a day?
Taking a bid block of say 28 days. Do you have minimum and maximum number of blocks of days on and off?
So you have this:
10 on / 10 off / 8 on
9 on / 10 off / 9 on
6 on / 3off / 6 on / 3 off / 6 on / 4off
The first two lines go senior, and go over guarantee. The third line sits in Bangor doing inside domestic turns and never breaks guarantee. If you don’t have min max block protection, you will see it.
How is your flying assigned? Is it built into the lines, or are your lines all reserve? If there is no base, how is flying assigned, to company favorites, or Hi time Low time? Hard to get that pay raise to work if you don’t go over guarantee while other guys are killing it.
What is your furlough protection? By straight seniority? By seat? By equipment type? Does the 5 year DC10 FO get the axe before the newhire 777 Captain?
09-10-2011, 08:49 PM
#396
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Position: just a co-pilot
Posts: 194
Hey Eric. Your post have made it to our union website. Thank you for saying what you did. I agree, we need to build off of each other. Omni being a bottom barrel operation with the greatest profits of all competitors combined, needs to lead the way. The practice of bending over a dollar to pick up a penny, that we all see, needs to end!!! Our personal time is important and every aspect of our personal time needs to be compensated....PERIOD!!! Hopefully by the end of the month the Omni pilot group will see what is possible and vote accordingly. Again, Thank you for your insight.
09-11-2011, 05:27 AM
#397
Tuk er jerbs!
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Position: B747 Left
Posts: 1,342
Originally Posted by seoceancrosser
Hey Eric. Your post have made it to our union website. Thank you for saying what you did. I agree, we need to build off of each other. Omni being a bottom barrel operation with the greatest profits of all competitors combined, needs to lead the way. The practice of bending over a dollar to pick up a penny, that we all see, needs to end!!! Our personal time is important and every aspect of our personal time needs to be compensated....PERIOD!!! Hopefully by the end of the month the Omni pilot group will see what is possible and vote accordingly. Again, Thank you for your insight.
I hope everyone makes an effort to look over our peers' contracts (many of which are posted on the 1224 website); our TA is still lagging in many ways. First contract or not, we should not be this far behind.
10 more days...wish this thing would just wrap up already!
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