Ditto. I also have a few "submitted to the company" that have been in limbo for awhile. Inaction is managements tool now. Also one "in progress" since February. SMH

For each insurance, you can submit sick/injured claims.Thats the primary design of the insurance. There’s also a benefit called a “well visit claim”: for each insurance, you get $100, spouse gets a $100. Each kid gets $50 per insurance.

So family of 4:
Employee: $100, $100
Spouse: $100, $100
Kid: $50, $50
Kid: $50, $50

A well visit is an incentive the insurance company gives the insured to at least be minimally healthy. All you do is submit proof you did 1 of the following for each person (each year) you want the free money:

“Health screening tests covered by the Wellness Benefit include, but are not limited to:

• Immunizations/Vaccinations (including COVID vaccines and screening tests)

• Annual physical exams

• Routine eye exams

• Routine dental exams

• Mammography

• Biometric screenings

• Colonoscopy

• Bone density screenings

• And more”

Edit: I just did the math and my free wellness money is about equal to premiums. Add 1 claim and it’s well over premiums. It looks like once your age is in the mid-50’s, premiums begin to increase beyond wellness free money.

I did. So I think you're incorrect on that supposition.

There is a grievance on the SC coverage automation, and I think this is one of the aspects that has been rolled into that.

Haven't looked in a while to check, but if so should this change the entry in STS from "Impasse" to something else so we can know.....something?

Is the DALPA site down for anyone else?

Same. I can get into ALPA, but not DALPA.

Same. Thought it was VPN issue since not in USA....

Been slow for a few days it seems. Took awhile to load last I looked but eventually got on.

Finally got on to the site. That list of MEC Grievances on the Contract Admin page has been growing steadily every month. It’s now almost two full pages. Was only one page, earlier just this year.

#KEEPYOURDEALS

where do we submit this at? I have critical illness but see no where to submit my health visit. And can we just submit our class 1 on top of dental?

And you think you're typical of your demographic?

Sign-in ALPA.org-> top right hamburger menu, “benefits”-> critical illness-> critical illness-> file a claim

this links you to voya’s file a claim site. Here you are filling a wellness benefit claim. On the online form you can do it for you and your whole family relatively easy, all at once, and both critical illness and accident at the same time. You need all person’s DOB, SS#s, and dates/providers of visits.

I put my EKG date from the class 1 in lieu of dental.

Yes, but I can only speak to my specific cohort.

Don't forget that they are giving payment holidays for Nov and Dec like they did last year (no premiums due) so it's even cheaper!

If you have kids these two insurances are no-brainers.

So are we back to 50%/100% on reroutes now? I thought it was still at 100% with 200% being grieved.

it was never 100/200.

It was supposed to jump up when they didn't have certain automation in place by a certain deadline. ALPA says that deadline was missed, triggering the extra RR pay. Company naturally disagrees.

I know that. But we had a time that all reroutes were paying 100, and there was a grievance because if they didn’t meet a timeline and they were supposed to pay 200, but the company said they met that timeline. I just don’t know where we were on that process, and if we were back to 50/100 now. Been a bit since I’ve been rerouted.

we’re in the impasse stage of that process.

Right. Maybe I missed it, but I don’t remember there being a period in the current contract where the company was actually paying anything other than 150/200.

there was a bit that all reroutes were paying 100 on top (200 if you would) because of missed deadlines. Then ALPA claimed another missed deadline, and it was supposed to go to 200 (300).

I guess I must have missed that. But the company is currently paying 150/200 on reroutes, against which a grievance has been filed after ALPA claimed the automation for sick/well was not implatemented on time.

I have a gut feeling that ALPA's documented cases of the automation not working will be waved away by the mediator as independent "glitches". And that we will never see the increased (back) pay.

Yeah, and it’s still not working, I had to submit a correction for a sick out trip for last month.

Does the lack of well functioning sick call automation mean we can still use the greater variety of medical professionals for a GFB per their settlement or since they're claiming everything's fine we're back to needing an actual MD?

Also at an impasse. So if you don't use the company's approved list they will deny it. You may get your missed pay back if there's ever a settlement, either through the mediation/grievance process or as a part of settling old grievances when a new PWA is signed. Personally I wouldn't roll the dice on that one.

Dazed and confused
 

Any guesses to why ARCOS calls for slips and then trip goes to a reserve or is rerun later even though there were hands raised? I was number one for a WS today and the trip disappeared after the initial call. Then, it reappeared an hour later and I was number 4 and it was assigned to somebody else... Seems off to me, but maybe there's legit reasons.

United's Starlink Wi-Fi was just featured on the Today Show. They pitched it as a major upgrade. Has anyone seen how it actually performs?

https://youtu.be/NGBOUzcN7Jc

it’s apparently going in most new biz jets and many are being retrofitted with SL. As they say, follow the $$$ (or build it and they will come). It’s the future. get on or get left behind (sorta like dl’s 75/76 fleet).

Two uses of it on their RJs…it is fast and stable. Statistically invalid data though.

They just got it approved for the 737s. I have used it on HAL and JSX so far. It is fast. It doesn't get bogged down even with many users. It works over the ocean. If Viasat doesn't get their act together quickly I am sure DL will be forced to go to with starlink in the near future. All eyes on the launch of the ViaSat-3 F2 launch that is supposed to happen late October. It is probably a make or break moment for Viasat

VSAT will be fine. The market certainly believes it’s the real deal. Stock was $9 in June. $37 today.
Problem will be no controls on people getting on FaceTime or Zoom calls. It’s supposed to be on the honor system to not do so and enforced by FAs.

Scheduling question: so trip in OT in my well staffed category is in open time all evening. OOBWS, back in OT, SC assignment, back in OT. Then it goes out like 6 hours later finally as an “A” to someone very junior. Me and my buddies could have gotten the trip, but received no IA calls in the middle of the night. Shouldn’t the entire category who was legal for the trip been blasted with an IA call? Not sure the difference between IA and A in trip coverage. Thanks.

If the pilot who was awarded it was very junior on a IA call isn’t that how it’s supposed to work?

I think functionally, they just toss out IA calls to everyone all at once, and whoever is fastest on the line to CS gets it. They generally go senior from what I’ve seen especially in a category that’s well staffed. I’m not trying to sound conspiratorial I’m just curious how/why CS is filling these kind of oddball OT scenarios.

That sounds like deal making. Almost every IA I've seen has gone pretty junior.

They go senior because they are skipping the GS step. I did my first IA last week. I wanted trip as a GS. First call I got was 5 minutes prior to report for IA. I pressed 1 and was disconnected. Called scheduling back, sat on hold for 12 minutes, then was given trip as IA almost 20 minutes after sign in. Trip started with DH to where I live otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to make it. This isn’t how IA’s are supposed to work. They did put trip on 23.M.7 report though so I supposed there’s that.

In my case, I don’t think anyone else wanted trip since it was past report, but it’s not supposed to be like this. Racing to get through.

Right. I’m just curious, if you see any “A” or “IA” trip covered, doesn’t it mean that every single legal pilot should have gotten a phone call all at once, then whoever is first to contact CS (probably 30 seconds later) gets the IA? I’m just wondering why me and my buddies never got the robo call.

EDIT: Wait do they do batch sizes in inverse seniority for IA calls? That’s would explain it.

I think technically they robo call starting at the bottom of the list. I don't know how instantaneous it is. In theory, it can go out at once. I've gotten IA calls hours after a trip was covered