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06-27-2019, 09:44 AM

#2371

s3cLyfe

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Originally Posted by Fpmx772

It is if you live in base. If your a commuter and get non computable trips, then ur 11 days off has now just dropped to about 7.

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Play the game. Get your hours. Get out. Commute and suffer for a couple years then move to whatever base your major gives you.

06-27-2019, 09:44 AM

#2372

Excargodog

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Originally Posted by Fpmx772

It is if you live in base. If your a commuter and get non computable trips, then ur 11 days off has now just dropped to about 7.

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That, unfortunately, is true. But the hiring freeze sort of made that unavoidable, barring an influx of street captains. We just don't HAVE that many FOs with the numbers to upgrade right now. They are in the pipeline though, but we need another 3-4 months before the queuing problems from the freeze two years ago work themselves out of the system.

06-27-2019, 10:13 AM

#2373

stang

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Originally Posted by Fpmx772

If ur a line holder the min floor is 75 hrs. But when we are short staffed they raise it to 85. Means u typically get a 95hr line with min, 11, days off. It’s no fun!

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Thank you!

06-27-2019, 10:22 AM

#2374

yrbroom

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I'm curious to see if the lowered captain minimums will make a difference in filling classes

06-27-2019, 10:39 AM

#2375

ShooterMcGavin

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Junior FOs you might make more money picking up FA open time at this point

06-27-2019, 12:39 PM

#2376

Stan Dingbye

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Slowhawk

8 upgrades for Aug....

Raised floors and min days off for all CA’s coming fall 2019

I dunno, there are 41 captains sitting reserve next month in LAX. Seems like the ones I fly with are seeing minimum of 5 months before holding a line.

I don’t know how many we are losing each month, but it seems to me that reserve time may go down if anything, although block hours do go down in the fall. Hard for me to imagine a staffing crisis going toward the end of the year.

06-27-2019, 03:54 PM

#2377

DiamondDriver

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98 hours block with 13 days off. Bidding in 85(ish)% FO. On property less than 6 months.

One thing can be said for sure, if you want to play the fly as much as you want game. CPZ is a great option....in LaX

06-28-2019, 06:28 AM

#2378

Mandrake

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I'm glad to see that the crews are treating the "dirty sock smell" with as much urgency as it deserves. I would love to see a QRH procedure for it - I believe Spirit has one (I realize we already have smoke fume etc). Don't forget that ALPA has provided this guidance: https://www.alpa.org/resources/fume-exposure-guidance

Keep writing it up folks or risk endangering your long and short term health.

06-28-2019, 07:02 AM

#2379

PanchoBarnes

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FA was showing me yesterday trips that were open for 400% pay.
I think some of them are at $20/hr, so even captains could make more money with FA open time lol.
Wow

06-28-2019, 08:37 AM

#2380

UhOh

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mandrake

I've been seeing this more and more in the logbooks. Keep it up. Irritated eyes and a scratchy sore throat are indicators that it's not just "coffee down the wrong drain".

http://avherald.com/files/spirit_a31...717_letter.pdf

There is some really good information in the link above. The link is a letter a Spirit FO wrote to ALPA who had experienced a particularly bad fume event(s). This is the letter that started the fume event program at Spirit. If you haven't read the letter yet it's worth the read. Most of it is there, I couldn't find the rest. If someone has the whole letter please post it. Every pilot should read this.

Last edited by UhOh; 06-28-2019 at 08:58 AM.