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Originally Posted by Alan Shore (Post 1758114)

DALPA's contract comparison shows FDX amendable date to be early in 2013. That's not anywhere close to 42 months. Didn't they extend their contract a few years ago for some COLA pay increases?

It's slightly more complicated than that, but yes.

The Company wanted some changes to fix some foreign domicile issues, and the MEC agreed to negotiate an interim agreement prior to Section 6 that fixed the aforementioned issues and also allowed for 3% raises over 2 years while they continued to work through the outstanding issues. The intent was to shorten the negotiations timetable by continuing talks while still gaining contractual improvements, so that at the end of the two year interim agreement there would be little if any open issues. Management at FDX has used that to delay and protract negotiations even further, and on Oct. 31, FDX mgt. applied for mediation with the NMB, yet another stall tactic.

A more accurate way for me to say it would be that they have been in direct and comprehensive negotiations for 42 months. They are roughly 20 months beyond their most recent amendable date.

FYI, mgt. also dropped a "we want to terminate the pension" on the negotiations table last week. Gigantic azzhats in upper management over there.....

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Originally Posted by hockeypilot44 (Post 1758116)

Nothing like getting assigned CQ between Christmas and New Years. An A period for a commuter to boot. About as bad as it gets. Even remembered to bid. Didn't help me.

Must be pretty junior in category. :(

Don't forget that you can ask for a hotel room, so long as you live more than 50 miles from the training center.

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Originally Posted by boog123 (Post 1758137)

Wonder how #2 will feel about being less than 10% seniority in category and possibly being on reserve over Xmas/Xmas eve, new years due to the way the trips were built.

The most senior pilot on reserve is guaranteed any day(s) off that he wants, so long as it results in a legal reserve line. With 1-14 reserve lines, at least one pilot is guaranteed to have any given day off. With 15-19 reserve lines, at least two pilots are guaranteed to have any given day off. With more than 19 reserve lines, at least 15% of reserve pilots are guaranteed to have any given day off.

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Originally Posted by ATL7ER (Post 1758097)

YES you can. I have done that many times.

PWA 23.I

I. Personal Drop

1. A pilot may, via DBMS, submit one of the following requests to drop a rotation(s) or
reserve on-call day(s) that begins no earlier than the next day (see Section 23 E.):
a. PD, or
b. APD.
2. Next-day APD requests will be processed (before PD requests) each day, by category, in
seniority order among pilots who have submitted requests by 0700E on such day.
3. Next-day PD requests will be processed each day, by position, in seniority order among
pilots who have submitted requests by 0700E on such day.

Thanks it worked. Whew. Not enough constraints on a ws.

So the ATL 717 is going to the Bahamas. No thanks. I want my SEC tour back.

Do unused payback days get liquidated at the end of the vacation year or do they carry over?

Thanks Scoop

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Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1758374)

Do unused payback days get liquidated at the end of the vacation year or do they carry over?

Thanks Scoop

If you don't use them in the current year they become earned vacation days for the next year.

23.S.16

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Originally Posted by satchip (Post 1758342)

So the ATL 717 is going to the Bahamas. No thanks. I want my SEC tour back.

NYC 7ER is now going to Hawaii a bunch. Directly and through LAX. That 5:15 really shuffled the flying around. Looks like Atl is now doing the JFK-MEX along with NYC.

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Originally Posted by cni187 (Post 1758382)

NYC 7ER is now going to Hawaii a bunch. Directly and through LAX. That 5:15 really shuffled the flying around. Looks like Atl is now doing the JFK-MEX along with NYC.

What do you mean by "directly"? Is Delta adding NYC to HNL nonstop?

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Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1758374)

Do unused payback days get liquidated at the end of the vacation year or do they carry over?

Thanks Scoop

The best place to see what you can do with payback days is explained in detail in the Scheduling Reference Handbook available on the Dalpa website. In good reader on my iPad, the answer is on page 104. Read all the questions and answers for what I said below.

Short answer, they become supplemental days and you bid them with next years vacation. There is a way to use them in the first 3 months of the year but you need to reference the above to see how to do that.

Denny