"This is a public service announcement (with guitars)."

If you happen to be a senior FO at LAX, just imagine for a moment, all the extra $$$$ you can put in your backpack if you bid CAPT in DTW or ATL now!

There are 5 direct flights each day, including a red-eye to DTW and 10 flights to ATL, including 2 red-eyes.

All this and more, could be yours, the price IS right.

And while we are at it, senior CAPT's in L.A., just imagine yourself behind the wheel of a large airplane. The 747 and 777 are calling your name.

Just think about it, you'll be thanking me later.

 

That's an interesting concept, but I wouldn't say its completely "without penalty" to the company, as they have to break up more trips and use a lot of DH credit…in many cases burning multipile reserves for the same "day" of a trip, as well as using given reserves for more days than the footprint they are covering due to front or back end DH only positioning, to simply "cover out of base". What you say still has merit, but I'd expect that to be "backed out" of any actual attempt to do what you are saying.

 

Welp....once again I get burned on a reroute!! This place is unfrigin believable. I get screwed out of a long overnight in city I bid to hangout with both my sister their families and meet my new (2 weeks old) niece, but am now string elsewhere bc some FO ran into a 60-168 issue. So I get his trip and he gets mine.
Once again our RR and scheduling section need to be addressed ASAP.

 

I love this PSA - would even mow laws, wash cars, or hang Christmas lights if it would make the switch easier for those considering such an option

 

Seems like they should have covered it with a reserve not a reroute. Agree it sounds b.s.

 

1) Bank them.
2) Use them as additional vacation when the ALV is low.
3) Bid reserve in that month.
4) Get paid more, work less.

You're welcome.

 

wha?? no no no. Atlanta is a dumpster fire. stay out. brown nosers. apu sherrif. hat sheriff. sick call sheriff. SIDA sheriff. seniority sheriff.

are your shoes shined every few hours? did your kids have a 4.2 gpa at a local Fayette County school while simutaneously being elected to Homecoming court and being recruited by UGA for football or cheerleading? do you have a golf cart? when you were at THE Academy did people often tell you that you were incredibly anal?

if your answer is no to any of these, bid DTW.

Mecca is sucka. (does not apply to 2008 or later model new hires)

/perpetuating stereotypes for personal gain

 

True dat. Bring back unscheduled DH pay! (and by unscheduled DH, I mean that which is not published in the Bid Package)

 

Why would anybody want to play football or cheerlead at UGA?

 

Alan and Scambo,

Here is the answer (from the Scheduling Committee Handbook) to the use of payback days to drop a regular line trip:

Q: Can I use payback days in a regular line month to drop a trip? How will I be paid?

A: Yes, by mutual agreement with Crew Scheduling. You may enter your request in PCS under “Leave Requests” by selecting “Payback Days.” Your pay will depend on the number of payback days available for use. If the number of days available are sufficient to cover the entire rotation, that number of days will be used and you will be paid for the entire rotation. If the number of days is not sufficient to cover the entire rotation, all available payback days will be placed on the days of the rotation, beginning with the first of such days, and you will be paid the value of those days only. You will forfeit any pay or guarantee for the remainder of the rotation. Note that credit resulting from application of duty rigs is always tied to the last duty period of the rotation.

Denny