It’s not nice to talk about Corvette owners that way

 

I'm not going to get into issues here on a public forum that have large costs or say what my key items are, but here's a list of low-to-no cost items that should be easy to add to the next PWA (in no particular order):

- Be able to be placed at the top of the Comf+ upgrade list on DDH
- Allow Comf+ bookings to/from training
- United crew meal selection, or at least contractual protection on first choice of meal before departure
- Improve commuter policy. No backup if mainline JS booked, remove 2 hour between flight requirement, etc
- Establish specific times for automatic OE buyoff release, either a certain number of hours prior to report or a set time the day prior to report
- Add a checkbox in icrew when dropping multiple rotations to tell the computer to just drop as many as possible. No more trying to enter 52 variations of all the rotations a pilot is trying to drop to hope one variation hits
- Add contractual protections for calling in fatigued for a training event. Same pay as rotation fatigue - if operationally caused then company pays, if caused by personal issues at home then deducted from sick bank
- Remove requirement to provide the general nature of an illness on the sick verification form
- Bring back ability to pre-verify items requiring long periods of sick time
- Allow greater flexibility in X day moves: as long as you abide by the X-99-X PBS category rules you should be able to do any legal move, coverage permitting. We should be able to move X days/LC days from the middle of blocks instead of just from the start or end
- Reserves should be able to, at their discretion, convert golden X days back to standard X days
- The 7ER category should transition from 4-99-4 rules to 3-99-5 as international flying is removed from the fleet.

I have a good list of things that are going to drive costs higher, but like I said I'm not going to negotiate in public on such key issues. The stuff above is low hanging fruit that hopefully is attainable without much negotiation.

 

Some small things I want to add/emphasize

-Improved commuter language.
-check box to exclude a WS from PCS in totality
-Define PS to mean regardless if seats are available for sale
-Add PCS step for platinum slip to replace current IA (i.e no trigger required?)
-silver slip balancing (either a counter or a trigger to pay single pay until non silver slip credit is above ALV-10.
-Require scheduling to use GSWC before IA if reserve coverage within 3 days of the trip to be covered is above X%

 

Yes being a former regional pilot at multiple regionals including 9e before Delta, 9e pilots or any regional pilots are not Delta pilots.

 

Did you take the flow? If so, you were already a Delta pilot in waiting. Why pull up the ladder behind you? Let your 9E brethren enjoy what is theirs.

 

By this logic, any pilot not currently at Delta but then gets hired by us is also Delta pilot while they wait. Just give it up.

 

Nope, I left 9e before there was a flow and worked my way thru another regional and got hired off the street.

 

would that change short call assignment times? i’m not familiar with how those needs are determined

 

there are alternatives...
"a Porsche is fine on 12 year captain pay" said in the tone of Affected Pilot

 

360 Modena?