Living in base is a great idea, unfortunately in this economy its next to impossible to pick up and move.

 

Which one of these is not like the other?? hmmmmmmmm.....


And from today's email from LD:

"While I did think the concept of developing a list of questions for the candidates had merit, I chose not to participate for numerous reasons. Lack of opportunity for input from all of Council 44, legality concerns with respect to compliance with ALPA Constitution and By-Laws and other regulatory entities, and the hasty execution of the process were but a few. "

Slowplay, care to revisit your objection?

"chose not to participate" and "exclusion" are 2 very different things, if you didn't know....

 

Being new to the DALS RSV system, how can I improve my chances to be assigned to a specific trip in open time. I believe I can submit a white slip, if so how many days prior to the trip should I submit it and how many days prior might Crew Schedules award it? Thanks

 

Reserve trips are given out no earlier than the day before.

You can put in a "yellow slip" for a specific rotation under the PCS option.

If youre available for 4 days and want a 1 to 3 day rotation, it's not very likely for them to honor the request, especially now where we aren't short on pilots at all...

Yellow slipping is not a precise art.

 

Also, 4-day trips are assigned within all reserves that has 4 or 4+ days of availability, and scheduling will always try to SC you on 1st day, then give you a 4 day trip. If you have 6 days on, and your preferred 4 day starts on your 1st on call day, chances are they will not honor it (unless nobody else in your group can accept that trip).

FWIW, i've been told the way short calls are assigned aren't exactly any black magic or voodoo artform. They actually use the magic "computer" to shoot out a list of possible names, and it's up to the schedulers to figure out who gets which shift of SC.

 

It is employee numbers and not names FWIW.

Also it comes down to RAW too. A yellow slip is now just considered a Yellow, not a high or low. There are two ways to submit Yellow Slips. First, is to reduce your RAW score, it only reduces it 15 points to keep that in mind when looking at trips and where you stand in the bucket. The others is to submit an OFF day fly request.
There are preferences that you can set, but for a reserve pilot a yellow is a yellow and they do not need to honor any of them. Also remember that any trip that is assigned at 12+ hrs prior to a report is not a proffer and if you have a Yellow it, it is yours even if you do not like it.
Reserve pilots cannot white slip.
Reserve Pilots can Green Slip. It is a good deal. You get your off day back and the pay is at 100% not 200% like a line holder green slip and it goes above your guarantee.

Hope this helps.
There is a game to it, so spend some time between the involuntary sign-off's and watch what happens.

 

Add to it that Trips cannot be assigned to a reserve pilot prior to 0800 base time the day prior to report.

 

I'm starting to understand why the pilots flew past Minneapolis--almost surprised they didn't get to Cananda

 

Take your SW kool-aid elsewhere. No one here cares what you think.

 

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