You think it’s really that many? It seems everyone is always converted to SC. Just from talking to guys and reading boards there are significantly more gripes regarding reserve and trip coverage than I ever heard previously.

 

Horrid take.

 

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First, the only gripes I hear about reserve is them not following SC assignment priorities. There is almost no other gripes. Anyone correlating SC usage with the current contract is ignoring that they could have done this and often did do this previously. The current contract is actually more financially difficult for the company to justify SC usage than in the past. If we went back to 12 hours, literally nothing would change regarding SC.

And yes, the vast majority of commuters have a witching hour or more. Let's assume the last flight leaves at 7. The first commutable trip in the morning for most people can't check in prior to 9 for most major city markets. If you could magically appear at the airport at 7, that alone is a 2 hour dead zone. It's really more like a 3-4 hour dead zone. You can get called at 6p for a 6a report and be completely hosed.

 

Yeah a lot of people forget to factor in prep/drive time in the witching hour. No one was going to the airport every evening to be in position to get on the last flight of the night just in case they got the dreaded 12 hour call out for the 0600 show. I’m 20 minutes from my commute airport and I reasonably need to be called close to 90 minutes from departure. That gives me just enough time to change, put my stuff in the car, drive, park, get to the terminal, get randomed at KCM, and get to the gate before they close the door 15 minutes early. I haven’t heard of anyone who has a witching hour under the new 18 hour callout, other than maybe some new hires who are jacked into a cross country commute or someone in some podunk city with no direct service to any hub requiring a 2 leg commute, but those people could be hosed even with a longer call out. 18 hours is a nice number that provides ample commute options while keeping reserves reasonably available for the company to use.

 

Is there anything worth $$millions that the MEC can unilaterally give to the Kompany? In return, we could get a pinky promise to follow the PWA.

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(Yes, this is sarcasm ... and a 'K' in remembrance of Drum)

 

And just to expound, a 12 hour call out at 6p doesn't give you a legal commute in most markets. Most first flights arrive between 6:30-8 depending on time changes

 

The biggest trip coverage problem this company has is it is short of pilots.

If they have reserves, nothing else matters because that’s as far as you go on the coverage ladder.

They run this place like an old school commuter. Use reserves to staff the airline and then use premium to cover the helmet fires. Well is dry after that.

 

Thats thanks to a Ex Endeavor manager that it’s now in flight ops. Run a legacy as a regional and when things doesn’t work use many excuses. Also, what’s a SIL???

 

Say what now?

I’ll assume you mean alter the reserve rules to establish:

1) Reserve Rotation Guarantee
2) SCC increased to 2 hours regardless if used or not
3) Remove scheduler discretion from awarding SCs above 6
4) Sick if needed on reserve
5) Remove reserve (and reroute) carveouts from consecutive sub 12 hr layovers
6) Remove reserve carve out for reroutes needing to violate an X day to get the punitive reroute pay.

Cause the only other thing you could have meant was unilaterally giving tons of concessions to the company.

Reserve was improved during the last contract. Let’s keep improving it, not give it away.