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The problem is the company is leaving no wiggle room for the, what if. You know as well as I do, that Murphy's Law seems to apply to aviation on a daily basis. How about the numerous times you are asked to turn 30 right for spacing. I have flown into BOS on a clear day and been told to hold over Norwich when I can see the airport 50 miles ahead. Slow as much as practical as Atlanta is switching airport configuration. I could go on and on. The real issue is if you over block that first leg by the small buffer, your done!

You could take it to the extreme and say that everyone should bid RLL... at what point does anyone get to make a living? FWIW, I've never flown a GS or an IA. But I don't begrudge those who do... it's in our contract. Furloughs suck, but that's the business. You should know that going in. Plan accordingly. Personally, I'd rather see an overtime pay scheme. Over the years, that would have made me a lot of extra cash, instead of a small percentage of the pilot group with a specific life style (flexible, live in base, esp. a larger base) be able to rake it all in themselves.

Hotel info for CQ will be at the bottom of your monthly schedule.

Rumor has it that the Jan rotations were a mistake and the computer was not programmed with the 30 minute buffer SD stated they would use. I guess we will know for sure when the FEB rotations are posted. Strangly however some JFK trips under 9 hours are still double crewed.

If the reroute was from your home base after your last leg it was illegal. It does not matter when you were notified. I have refused reroutes like that and never heard a word about it. If you did fly it then you at a minimum are due assignment pay and the vacation day back.

Why would you ever do that? It would encourage the company to furlough at least a few pilots any chance they had. They will always get the trips covered. Timbo can attest to the fact that even when undermanned far worse then any pilot hired after 91 has ever seen they will get the trips covered. Double pay is a huge incentive for the company to staff the airline properly. Give it up and we will forever be understaffed.

I'm also curious: If 2.6billion pre tax

is it (10% of 2.5 Billion) + (20% of .1Billion)?

Or 20% of 2.6 Billion?

250 mil + 20 mil = 270 mil

or 520 million????

That's a big difference.

Part of the problem with pilots having this attitude versus that regarding overtime flying is the unclear coding and ramifications in DBMS.

For example, a "G" means a green slip. If the pilot getting the GS is a regular lineholder, it is fairly straightforward. He is working on his otherwise days off, permanently solves the company's critical staffing need, gets compensated double pay for it, end of story.

However, if the pilot is on reserve (see ATL 320A) the ramifications for the company are completely different. He is flying a GS on his reserve days off, and gets paid for the trip flown above the reserve guarantee...AND gets the days off paid back! He has not permanently solved anything for the company (and good on him), just their problem that day. But since due to the x-day payback he will no longer be available to them on the days he otherwise would have been, now they have yet another problem to solve a few days later.

A reserve GS, though coded "G" in the DBMS daily trip coverage, functions far more like a green slip with conflict (GSWC, coded "C" in daily trip coverage) than a straight green slip. In fact, I have always wondered why the DBMS trip coverage designator wasn't a different letter for GS flown by reserves vice regulars.

I'm just saying that whenever there are furloughs, there is always an uproar against senior guys flying GSs while junior guys are flying IAs. IOW, senior guys are being pressured into foregoing their contractual rights while the junior guys take advantage of it. I couldn't care less either way frankly, but I get sick of hearing how the senior guys are keeping furloughees on the street when junior guys are every bit as "responsible".

With the new 117 flight time limits such as 1000 is 365 and 100 in 672 I really think we need to make the 7 SC rolling as well. I hate getting 3-4 in the last week or two of the month only to be hit with another 3 in the first week of the next month.

I do realize there are only 7 SCs in a month if the RSV Guarantee is 75 and over.