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08-07-2014 | 05:34 PM
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If PBS cannot award you a regular line, then you will be awarded a reserve line. You have to call and talk to a scheduling supervisor to get them to give you a blank line. I had this happen several months ago due to a vacation. I asked for the blank line and easily filled up with weekends off. It worked great.
08-07-2014 | 05:34 PM
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I disagree with that. Perhaps the individuals who drafted the resolutions were unable to get out of their trips. It's not exactly easy to swap or drop these days. Perhaps they had the day off, but were unable to get out of a prior engagement. Poor excuse, and I'm disappointed to hear that.
Back in 2006/2007, the idea of expanding our brokerage link to include other investment options besides just mutual funds became an item of apparent interest to many in the pilot group. I put together a resolution for C44 to get ALPA to go back to the company and try to negotiate this. Since I had a conflict with the meeting, I found another pilot to present the resolution at the meeting. It passed. I also coordinated with pilots in SLC and CVG to get the same resolution presented and passed there.
Now I'm not trying to take credit for getting the expanded brokerage link. There were several moving parts that had to come together to get that done. Our timing was right for it too. But had the C44 meeting shot down my resolution simply because I wasn't there to present it... who knows?... maybe we wouldn't have the expanded brokerage link today, which has been extremely valuable and instrumental in allowing some of us to rebuild our retirement savings after the loss of the pension.
08-07-2014 | 05:51 PM
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Exactly. Here's an example...
Back in 2006/2007, the idea of expanding our brokerage link to include other investment options besides just mutual funds became an item of apparent interest to many in the pilot group. I put together a resolution for C44 to get ALPA to go back to the company and try to negotiate this. Since I had a conflict with the meeting, I found another pilot to present the resolution at the meeting. It passed. I also coordinated with pilots in SLC and CVG to get the same resolution presented and passed there.
Now I'm not trying to take credit for getting the expanded brokerage link. There were several moving parts that had to come together to get that done. Our timing was right for it too. But had the C44 meeting shot down my resolution simply because I wasn't there to present it... who knows?... maybe we wouldn't have the expanded brokerage link today, which has been extremely valuable and instrumental in allowing some of us to rebuild our retirement savings after the loss of the pension.
Back in 2006/2007, the idea of expanding our brokerage link to include other investment options besides just mutual funds became an item of apparent interest to many in the pilot group. I put together a resolution for C44 to get ALPA to go back to the company and try to negotiate this. Since I had a conflict with the meeting, I found another pilot to present the resolution at the meeting. It passed. I also coordinated with pilots in SLC and CVG to get the same resolution presented and passed there.
Now I'm not trying to take credit for getting the expanded brokerage link. There were several moving parts that had to come together to get that done. Our timing was right for it too. But had the C44 meeting shot down my resolution simply because I wasn't there to present it... who knows?... maybe we wouldn't have the expanded brokerage link today, which has been extremely valuable and instrumental in allowing some of us to rebuild our retirement savings after the loss of the pension.
08-07-2014 | 05:57 PM
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08-07-2014 | 06:05 PM
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08-07-2014 | 06:15 PM
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We are bidding for sept. That referenced your August award. It's just info now.
08-07-2014 | 06:15 PM
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08-07-2014 | 06:17 PM
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08-07-2014 | 06:21 PM
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I guess ALPA will return my call back, but it's been nearly eight hours and I was hoping to figure this out today to start on my bid before tomorrow's schedule get in the way.
Looked in the contract and I did not see how NQAT (non qualified) days are handled for credit/pay. I have NQAT days at the beginning of the month, training days, and then shadow days. Training's worth 3:45 a day for each day I'm scheduled for actual training, but what's the NQAT pay? From earlier posts I get that the shadow days pay whatever I can get scheduled in them.
Do the shadow days get pushed to the right if your training is eventually scheduled to be a day or two longer than what is showing on your PBS bid calendar, or do they just disappear? (i.e. I think I'll have some off days from training in between classrooms/sims; right now in PBS the training days have the whole training scheduled without an off day in there).
Looked in the contract and I did not see how NQAT (non qualified) days are handled for credit/pay. I have NQAT days at the beginning of the month, training days, and then shadow days. Training's worth 3:45 a day for each day I'm scheduled for actual training, but what's the NQAT pay? From earlier posts I get that the shadow days pay whatever I can get scheduled in them.
Do the shadow days get pushed to the right if your training is eventually scheduled to be a day or two longer than what is showing on your PBS bid calendar, or do they just disappear? (i.e. I think I'll have some off days from training in between classrooms/sims; right now in PBS the training days have the whole training scheduled without an off day in there).
Bump.
I'll whittle the questions down to one: what credit do you get for days that are listed as NQAT on your schedule?
08-07-2014 | 06:53 PM
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