Check Essential

That's right.
If you are even one minute below guarantee they can assign you a trip up to ALV+15.

Bucking Bar

Make that a two day :-)

3 * 5:15 = 15:45 which exceeds ALV + 15 in your example.

dalad

Oops, I meant 7ER and 765.

Hillbilly

In iCrew, go to the pull down under "Pay/Hours" and select "Time Card". From there select "Sick Time Usages and Balances" which should be the 4th menu option displayed on the page. You can also choose "Sick Occurrences" from the same page to see additional sick usage information (verified and unverified balances, etc.)

After selecting "Sick Time Usages and Balances" you will see a "By Bid Period" option where you select a specific Bid Period to view that month's usages and balances. Each time you hit enter under that display it progresses forward to the next bid period, so this can be useful for viewing month to month information. You can also access the sick occurrence info mentioned above from this view by selecting F8. The other viewing option is "By Year" and it shows the sick leave year (June 1 - May 31) balances for the last 4 years.

Hillbilly

Only in months where the ALV is 72:43 or less, making the reserve guarantee 72:00 (assuming no training, vacation, etc). With an ALV of 72:44, you could be at 71:59 (1 minute short of your reserve guarantee of 72:00) and get a 15:45 3-day bringing you to 87:44 which is exactly ALV + 15.

A month where the ALV is 84:00, you could be at 79:59 (1 minute below your reserve guarantee of 80:00) and be assigned a trip valued at 19:01 and be right at ALV + 15.

All that being said, I think guys getting tagged to the limit like that is very rare and only slightly more commonplace than unicorn sightings. It happens, but not very often. I hope to see it restricted further in the future.

sailingfun

They can but again if you know your contract and use it well you may be able to avoid that.

Lifeisgood

2 cents, I also heard around the training center:
DCI is not delivering the schedule
"717 and 737 deliveries are accelerating"
A330 fleet is to expect new hires with NYC cats opening
E periods on M88
E periods on 737, LAX dudes only
MIA location for 320 starting Spring

RockyBoy

Trying to get 321 deliveries moved from 2016 into 2015.
Newhires to the 330 is highly unlikely IMO. It is NYC, so you never know. The 765 category there has always been senior. I would expect the 330 to be about the same since it pays the same.

Purple Drank

We shouldn't have listened to you and DALPA when you said that the ALV+15 provision would only be used on international fleets.

Your advice of using a PD is pathetically out-of-touch with reality. On narrow body fleets (except for maybe the new 717 category in NY), it's impossible to use a PD on the weekends, and nearly so to use one 3-4 days in advance.

gredenko

Sorry for the ignorance, but what are "E periods?"