Well, apparently she is whatever a FO in the CPO is called. Direct line to upper management.

This situation is troubling.

I've had conversations with my rep that I don't want management to know about.

In any case, we'll know if this would be problematic for pilots by the number management and/or DALPA types here who downplay the risk of this situation (see sailing fun's post above).

Personally I think they should offer an ER package and target anyone hired prior to '07. Who's with me?

Ok, I see some irony in the post above, (2 posts) but I will wait for someone else to point it out. Bueller? Bueller?

It should target ONLY '07 hires. Remember...everyone hates them.

Let's target 73N FOs hired in '01 while we're at it!

That's exactly what I thought it would be modeled after.

The FA AFPs have no reserve coverage from what I understand. If you get sick, you have to find your own replacement.

I don't see pilots going for that though. But I could see a pilot microbase having no reserves on their own and having written into the contract DHs on both ends of the trip.

Pros for the company is having no reserve coverage needed for that micro-base, which on a widebody with 3 and 4 man trips is a lot of reserves that don't fly. Second, they now have 24-36 hours notice of someone calling in sick for a trip (because everything starts with a DH and a hotel), so they can put it out for a WS far before it needs to go to a Res or as GS. You put the reserves on SC in Atlanta and DH them where they are needed in time for the trip.

Pros for the pilots are that all trips start and end with a DH, which is what the commuting widebody guys would love. A con for the pilots, and this is a biiggg one, is that you knock off a larger precentage of the widebody spots because many fewer reserves are needed. I could see a 50% reduction in Reserves needed.

It stagnates the whole list for a long time.

I don't get it. If every trip starts/ends with a DH, how is it a micro base? How is that different from what the 330 guys are doing now out of NYC and MSP?

If I was a 744 A I wouldn't take any early out.

It sounds like they'd want to save on the DH and rely on pilots commuting in on their own time & dime like a regular base.

i.e. No DH from ATL up to MSP or vice versa when there are people who live there that would do it.

Sounds like very little in it for the pilots.

They won't, unless they are within a year. The 777 guys on the other hand would be stupid not to take it.