Airline Pilot Central Forums - Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?

Istanbul service resumption moved ahead 1 month. Now starts in late April instead of May 2013...

Completely unrelated to likely LH and THY merger ;-)

VS now will likely join SkyTeam...

Cheers
George

Razorback one

11-05-2012 10:56 AM

In December, I have 1 week of vacation and 2 days of recurrent. How many off days will I have if I bid reserve?

Or, asked another way, does recurrent training count as off days, or work days while on reserve?

Thanks in advance.

R1

CVG767A

11-05-2012 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Purple Drank (Post 1287561)

I've said it many times. I like being here. But folks like yourself who are drunk blind on Widget-aid are management's wet dream and only hurting our ability to do better.

We can do better.

Many of the people who you say are blind drunk on Widget-aid are actually doing union work. When you say "our ability to do better", can I assume that you're doing something to improve our condition, or do you just throw stones from the sidelines?

iaflyer

11-05-2012 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Razorback one (Post 1287965)

You'll get 10 or 11 days off, depending on your category's ALV. The chart is in 12.n.2.a or .b depending on the ALV. The days of recurrent count as work days now.

johnso29

11-05-2012 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Razorback one (Post 1287965)

R1, I had this exact scenario in Oct. Count your CQ days as Reserve days of availability. In a 31 day bid period you will use the 24 days of availability column. So since the M88 ALV for Dec is 74 hours it looks like at minimum you will get 11 X days. If you're category is projecting at least 20% reserves, then you'll receive 12 X days.

APCLurker

11-05-2012 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Razorback one (Post 1287965)

CQ no longer reduces your days off on reserve (it used to). As johnso said it is considered "available."

Your vacation time will reduce your number of days off. There is a table in the front of the bid packet (pbs bid site as well??) to show you the reduced amount.

grasshopper

11-05-2012 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by georgetg (Post 1287958)

dominos...

johnso29

11-05-2012 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by grasshopper (Post 1288003)

dominos...

I prefer Papa Johns. :p:D

FIIGMO

11-05-2012 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Fly4hire (Post 1287929)

We have Mil Leaves returning, so we really do have new hires, yeah. They may be senior to you, and we didn't mention them during the TA roadshows but they are new hires, yeah, that's the ticket....