It looks like nothing more than a format change from the pay statement. What am I missing?

From an insider prospective on the LAX shuttle flying, the schedule is custom made to be intolerant of any delay. The flights are underblocked and scheduled with 30 minute turns all day. I see very few, if any flights cancel for no pilots unless they time out, which does occasionally happen with all of the SFO ground delay programs. There are so few gates in LAX that even when we know in advance of a ground delay, we have to push and start racking up block time. Throw in any mechanical or weather issues and it just cascades through the rest of the day. Everything is just spread too thin in LAX...gates, block times, aircraft utilization, etc.

It depends how much you want to dis-incentivize reroutes. Do you want to never get a reroute, or do you want a little extra cash for your troubles? GS pay might make them go away all together? SWA has some kind of a 1.5 pay system where they throw a little cash around and everyone seems happy?

Agree 100%. For years we had a stand alone MD90 base with only 16 aircraft. With 88 717s that would be 22 per domicile with 4 a Pilot bases.

Scoop :)

At least some of the B schedules are available via the back door!

T you're absolutely right it should, but somehow it hasn't happened and I'm not holding breath it ever will . Last time I checked AF was flying 5 of the 6 flights out of JFK and all with BIG stuff. The JV agreement is a joke and it's costing us (DL pilots) big time.:mad:

Item 1. LOA 14-03; Short Call: The Company and the Association reached a tentative agreement this week on LOA 14-03. This LOA modifies the requirement for contact and acknowledgement of an assignment for the first two hours if placed on Short Call after a hard no-fly day to read:

Exception: A pilot who is converted to short call on his first on-call day following a non-fly day will not be required to be available for contact during the first two hours of his short call period as follows …

This agreement removes the restriction on a pilot to exercise this provision if a short call is placed on his schedule less than nine hours prior to the start of an on-call day. The net effect is that all pilots converted to short call on their first fly day, after a hard no-fly day, will be able to use this provision. Previously if a short call was placed on a pilot’s line after 1500 the day prior, he could not exercise this option. This is an improvement to your contract based on the feedback we received from you.

Am I reading this correctly to say that the union has negotiated back a small portion of a large QOL benefit that they gave away during FAR 117 negotiations? Prior to FAR 117 negotiations, the two hour option was available to a reserve on any short call day. I don't mean to sound snarky, but are we really calling this a win? If I'm misinterpreting somehow, my apologies.

Right now they have a 777 flying the route, I'm assuming it's daily but I don't really know. So really it's just an upgauge.

We have protections! :rolleyes: Really, we do. (that aren't seeming to work very well)

IMO, the 2 hr commute option never went away...in reality...if you had Gogo internet and were monitoring deltanet. The language went away, IMO due to an oversight. Now, the language is back, but ONLY for your first shortcall after your X day.

Big win, no. Codified, yes. Big change, no.

Don't fool yourself. We don't have protections.