Lurking the Reserve Avail List is a great technique to guage how much pilots are getting used, especially near the end of a month when everyone is likely to have been on call an equalized amount. Even check a few pilots' schedules. Pro tip: if you check a prior month's schedule, it only shows to that pilot if they look at thier old schedule. I'm not creeped out when a random dude checks my schedule, but if you are, that can mitigate it somewhat...

FWIW, I was able to get some sleep on every crossing I had except 2, and I think both of those were first break. At least on the 765 (aka 'the 400'), every departure was between about 7 and 10 or so. So first break might be a little early to get to sleep easily on the earliest departure. We also only had 6 departures a night in a relatively small category. The 330 is bigger, and getting bigger still. So they may have had more departures earlier. Can't speak to that.

It's been posted before, but for anyone who's not seen WB sleep 'norms', on the layovers, most people try not to sleep on the van/bus to the hotel (which in some places like London or Paris can be a challenge), then crash for only about 3 hours. Some people will do the "ironman" and head straight out to see the sights, but that's pretty brutal on the body to do very often. I couldn't ever do it, personally. For the rest of us, after that 3-hour nap, get up, get a workout, and go out to dinner with the crew and maybe tour a bit. Then go back to the hotel at local bedtime, and crash hard for a full "night's" sleep. Then, when you are getting up 0200 on your body clock, you have just had a full night's rest. Take another nap on the crossing back. It's pretty manageable if you stick to that routine. The key is getting some sleep on the crossings, IMO. Also, at the time Sonata was a sleep aid which had a 6-hour no-fly time after taking it. I think the FAA raised that time now. But it was approved for "circadian rhythm disruption associated with International travel". I took it and reported it on my FAA 8500 every time. Having said that, when I was out on disability 5 years ago, coming back the FAA wanted 3 years of pharmacy records to demonstrate I wasn't using it for other than official trips. Dumb. Talk to your AME about it, as it does help ensure you get a good nights rest before coming back.

I believe it pays at the higher rate - which is to say Guarantee pays at the end of the bid month's pay rate. I went back to an older PAS in my anniversary month, and it was paid at a rate actually slightly higher than the higher rate of the two listed. Weird. But it wasn' "prorated" between the two, if that helps.

 

mine has paid based on a pro rated amount. EG if your anniversary date was the 15th of Jan, 50% would pay at one year and 50% at the other.

your EOM check will be 1/2 res guarantee at your new rate and your next 15th check will be the difference

 

First was it coded correctly? (A or C) IA always pay the entire trip above guarentee. The credit portion on reserve days also counts towards your guarantee.

 

Say again…?

 

It was coded correctly as an 'A'.

A correction to your post though: on reserve, only the portion that interupted X-days (base time) gets paid above guarantee. The portion that fell on RES-days (base time) is applied to your RES guarantee.

As for the reroute pay, in my case the reroute fell entirely on my original RES day. It ended up being about an hour and a half greater than what I was scheduled originally to do so I was CREDITed the entire duty period toward my guarantee, and have a RRPY line sorth 50% of the RR duty period (paid above guarantee) added to that date.

It looks like everything was done correctly, including the PB/PR days since I called after block-in with my 'rerouted duty-off' time.

I have learned a ton about the new contract language with this exercize.

*****New question-new scenario: *****
I have a block of RES days, one X-day, and another block of RES days. If I pick up a RES GS on the last day of the first block, do I get anything for that middle X-day or did I just screw myself out of an X-day for no benefit. All of the examples show X-days at the beginning of a GS or being interupted at the end of a GS; nothing in the middle.

Thanks for all the responses to the previous scenario. I hope it added to the collective RES knowledgebase.

 

As Res, any FDP which starts on an X-day (converted to base time) will pay above guarantee. In addition, if you start on the last RES day but have <12 to report (or is it 18 now?) will also pay that FDP above guarnantee. This needs to be coded as an "F#1" however, so DBMS knows to pay that res day 'above' (CS sometimes codes it as G#1, which will not reflect that first FDP as GS pay). In your scenario, the first 2 FDP's and any DH credit for those days will pay above guarantee. The third day and any trip rig/ADG credit will go toward guarantee. If you have a choice of trips, choose the one with a lot of block/DH on the first 2 days of the trip. Also, your PB day will start 9 hours after release, which may make the remaindr of that second RES blcok almost unusable, depending on how long it was to begin with. Can be a good strategy.

 

23.U.3.b. The first day is on a resrve day. (less than 18 or would just be a reserve assignment) I should have clarified. But, yes pays and accumulates PB like a green slip.

 

Just for clarity, an IA (or GS) which starts on a Res LC day does not generate a PB day for that LC day. Only days which interrupt an X-day earn a PB. I think you meant that, just don't want anyone confused.

 

Anyone explain how green slips work on short call?

A person is on SC at the start of a reserve block. They get assigned a next day rotation (unrelated to SC) and rest at the end of short call. Then they get an ARCOS green slip callout for a trip that reports during the SC period but conflicts with the next day rotation. Report time is ~1hr if that makes a difference.

Shouldn’t they just get used off shortcall instead of being offered the GS?
Does being within 24hrs of report for next day rotation matter?

Further, person accepts the green slip. Scheduling then removes the previously assigned next day rotation and awards the new rotation as a short call assignment instead of a GS. ???

 

Just to clarify, you do not enter rest at the end of short call. You immediately revert back to LC. The only time you enter rest is prior to the report of a trip or short call or as assigned by scheduling. They should have given that trip as a SC assignment but the schedulers may not have been experienced enough to know they can take you off an assignment for the next day to give you a trip today. I don't know that you'd be given anything for the GS but if you do, assignment pay only? The only time you can be given a GS while on call is if it would interrupt x days or if the trip is between 10-18 hours on LC.

*Edit: okay, I see you said they gave you rest at the end of SC for the assignment the next day