Any "Latest & Greatest about Delta?" Part 2
07-16-2025 | 01:13 PM
#8721
Roll’n Thunder
Joined: Oct 2009
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From: Pilot
If you don't check in then it doesn't really matter.
07-16-2025 | 01:21 PM
#8722
Line Holder
Joined: Mar 2014
Posts: 504
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From: 757/767
Unless you're senior enough to feed at the SS trough, virtually everyone else would benefit more from trips being covered by greenslips than they would from any of those "features."
07-16-2025 | 01:35 PM
#8723
On Reserve
Joined: May 2024
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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
I'm soon to be commuting by air for the first time forever. To jumpseat on jetBlue I have to list ahead of time on myIDTravel.
What if I take a different flight? How do I cancel the reservation? I can't find an app.
TIA
What if I take a different flight? How do I cancel the reservation? I can't find an app.
TIA
Login to MyIDTravel -> hamburger icon -> “Flight List” -> click on the 6 digit reservation ID -> “Cancel Entire Booking”.
07-16-2025 | 02:34 PM
#8724
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Joined: Mar 2022
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My point is to put more SS, VAS or PBS premium rotations/reserve days in place ahead of time when available reserves are projected to be near 0. We have the tools to do this already, so let's not concede mass efficiencies to the company such as removing auto accepts or expanding CNO that ultimately sacrifice QOL to squeeze more work out of pilots.
It's on them to fix our meltdown recoveries, no concessions.
07-16-2025 | 02:49 PM
#8725
Line Holder
Joined: Mar 2014
Posts: 504
Likes: 12
From: 757/767
No, we're talking about reports < 2 hours. Those currently are not going to GS, they're going to IA regularly now.
My point is to put more SS, VAS or PBS premium rotations/reserve days in place ahead of time when available reserves are projected to be near 0. We have the tools to do this already, so let's not concede mass efficiencies to the company such as removing auto accepts or expanding CNO that ultimately sacrifice QOL to squeeze more work out of pilots.
It's on them to fix our meltdown recoveries, no concessions.
My point is to put more SS, VAS or PBS premium rotations/reserve days in place ahead of time when available reserves are projected to be near 0. We have the tools to do this already, so let's not concede mass efficiencies to the company such as removing auto accepts or expanding CNO that ultimately sacrifice QOL to squeeze more work out of pilots.
It's on them to fix our meltdown recoveries, no concessions.
07-16-2025 | 03:30 PM
#8726
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Joined: Mar 2022
Posts: 284
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Hardly any of the trips being covered by 23M7 are actually reporting <2 hours. Covering trips with solutions that pay less than what they did pre C2019 should not be the answer to a system that has become unworkable for relatively short notice trips. Both the company's behavior and the pilot groups behavior have a role to play in it no matter how inconvenient that is to some.
How is the company failing to plan for that the fault of pilot behavior? We shouldn't concede scheduling efficiency here if reasonable solutions are available. The company will just run hot against the new line in the sand, as they did before.
07-16-2025 | 03:40 PM
#8727
Flap Canoe TicTacToe Ref
Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 230
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From: answering SELCAL, CH-AD
You’re not a reserve pilot yet.
23.S.1. “A reserve pilot will…”
23.S.2. “A reserve pilot will not be…”
You're still a regular pilot in a regular month so you can’t be assigned any rotation reporting during a time window a reserve pilot might be required to ascertain for.
23.S.1. “A reserve pilot will…”
23.S.2. “A reserve pilot will not be…”
You're still a regular pilot in a regular month so you can’t be assigned any rotation reporting during a time window a reserve pilot might be required to ascertain for.
Let's say you block-in at 1530 as REG on last day of the bid period. REG to RES.
You squeeze yourself on the employee bus amongst all the P.F. Cheech & Chong's and Skunk-Fil-A workers who still reek of that morning's pre-shift clambake and head to the parking lot. Then it hits you. "Do I have to do a 1600 pre-release sked check because I'm RES tomorrow?
Or do you simply begin 18-hour leash at 0000 later that night?
07-16-2025 | 03:47 PM
#8728
Moderator
Joined: Jul 2006
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VAS and SS do not pay less as a sum to the pilot group if you're using them to staff with adequate buffers. Want an IROP-proof week? Put one VAS per category in place every day. If they get used, put another in place. If a bid packet trip is left in open time and has no takers, make it green early rather than burning up your last reserves to cover it. Let the reserves stay put and only use them if needed.
How is the company failing to plan for that the fault of pilot behavior? We shouldn't concede scheduling efficiency here if reasonable solutions are available. The company will just run hot against the new line in the sand, as they did before.
How is the company failing to plan for that the fault of pilot behavior? We shouldn't concede scheduling efficiency here if reasonable solutions are available. The company will just run hot against the new line in the sand, as they did before.
This! They have so many levers available to pull to help them out. They fail to use them, then cry foul (use 23m7) when things go awry. Then they have pilots blaming fellow pilots for the company not using all their resources and violating the contract. Even better, they have pilots wanting to give away more stuff (because it worked so great last time) just to get them to fix the issue the company created. Masterfully played by the company.
07-16-2025 | 04:01 PM
#8729
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 13,215
Likes: 664
From: ir.delta.com
VAS and SS do not pay less as a sum to the pilot group if you're using them to staff with adequate buffers. Want an IROP-proof week? Put one VAS per category in place every day. If they get used, put another in place. If a bid packet trip is left in open time and has no takers, make it green early rather than burning up your last reserves to cover it. Let the reserves stay put and only use them if needed.
How is the company failing to plan for that the fault of pilot behavior? We shouldn't concede scheduling efficiency here if reasonable solutions are available. The company will just run hot against the new line in the sand, as they did before.
How is the company failing to plan for that the fault of pilot behavior? We shouldn't concede scheduling efficiency here if reasonable solutions are available. The company will just run hot against the new line in the sand, as they did before.
07-16-2025 | 04:05 PM
#8730
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,524
Likes: 194
From: UNA
Question: Does it have to be a REG day off? What about a REG day on where you end a trip?
Let's say you block-in at 1530 as REG on last day of the bid period. REG to RES.
You squeeze yourself on the employee bus amongst all the P.F. Cheech & Chong's and Skunk-Fil-A workers who still reek of that morning's pre-shift clambake and head to the parking lot. Then it hits you. "Do I have to do a 1600 pre-release sked check because I'm RES tomorrow?
Or do you simply begin 18-hour leash at 0000 later that night?
Let's say you block-in at 1530 as REG on last day of the bid period. REG to RES.
You squeeze yourself on the employee bus amongst all the P.F. Cheech & Chong's and Skunk-Fil-A workers who still reek of that morning's pre-shift clambake and head to the parking lot. Then it hits you. "Do I have to do a 1600 pre-release sked check because I'm RES tomorrow?
Or do you simply begin 18-hour leash at 0000 later that night?
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