I need to get wise on a GS question...

How does a trip on a GS that spills b/w bid periods work/pay? The kicker is I'm going from a reg line to a Resv line.

 

When the DPDC account closes and if you elect to dump it into DPSP will that effect the yearly max deposit amount?

 

I would say most pilots are clueless, and what they do know comes from company publications! Every single pilot has to log onto Deltanet and Icrew and both places are replete with company propaganda. On the other side we have the union doing there best to get info our to the pilots, but it's a fine line they have to tow....unfortunately! On top of that many pilots don't read emails from the union and or never go to the union web site.
How do we fix this? Unless there's 100% involvement of the pilot group we are fighting an uphill battle.

 

Very disappointing:

MEC Alert 13-21 reads like a company bulletin. It goes over the company's new rule interpretation and then lays out the punishment you can expect if you don't follow the new policy.

The "in our view" sentence is weak and does not inspire much confidence in the union position.

I don't think this Alert is going to give fortitude to many reserve pilots to ignore those threatening calls from scheduling to acknowledge 10 hours prior.

Capt. Hook

 

I'm not quite sure what people wanted the union to say?

 

I wanted them to either say, "You are not obligated to report for a trip before 1900 on your first day", or "we have negotiated a new PWA section"

 

No. It will have no effect. The 415(c) limits apply towards your contributions and the company's contributions for each year individually.

 

14 greenies in MSP/320/FO! Yes...we're overstaffed.

 

Nothing in 117 makes our contract unworkable. Long call going to 19 hours when, by the company's own admission "most" conversions happen around the 16 hour mark is far from some new unworkable catastrophe. You can still be on short call too, because your "required schedule check" is now, like it always has been, NLT 2am on your first work day, so then plus 10 hours 117 rest, so you can always get a noon short call on day one, and then be notified of additional short calls while on short call, provided you are notified of your 10 or more hour rest period at that point.

Whatever the company loses because of this was not only completely preventable by constructively engaging DALPA for the year+ they knew this was coming. But they waited til the last second and forced a potential crisis by refusing to negotiate and trying to change the contract by memo and putting us on a perpetual 2 hour fantasy leash that doesn't exist and putting the pilots in the position of putting out the company's self induced helmet fire that they got while counting their money and enjoying their 3 year JV balancing window by getting us to hopefully self gut our own contract.

And now in the 11th hour it appears they are basically saying "that's right, and y'all ain't gonna do jack about it neither".

 

^^^^^^^awesome^^^^^^^^