Originally Posted by ERflyer (Post 1821638)

ALPA PAC money goes to pro-labor individuals.

If it does not go to as many Republicans as you would like perhaps it is because some are anti-labor.

Originally Posted by crewdawg52 (Post 1821548)

:confused: How did you come up with that?


First, there is no category with an ALV of 80 hrs in March, unless they changed it (according to the bid packet I use). But if the ALV was 80 hrs, reserve guarantee would be 78 hrs (2 hrs less of ALV).

Second, you have 4 days vacation so there is 26 days of possible reserve days for March, which equates to 10 "X" days and 16 days of reserve. You are credited already with 13 hrs. If you fly zero to 65 hrs in March, you get the reserve guarantee of 78. If you fly over 65 hrs in March, you get paid on top of reserve guarantee.

Now a different game. You get a line. Vacation, while bidding, counts as time and credit (can only bid a line up to 87:30 and you have 13 hrs already credit). Once bidding is over, vacation is credit only now. So if you fly 70 hrs in March, your credit is 83 hrs.

Example (this happened to me in Nov): 2 weeks vacation (45:30 hrs credit) Bid a 3 day trip worth 26 hrs, so my Nov month was 71:30. After bidding was over, I dropped the 3 day trip and picked up a 10 day trip worth 62 hrs. Nov total was 107:30 (62 + 45:30)

Clear as mud?

Originally Posted by blue vortex (Post 1821608)

Something for SD and AH (et al) to ponder regarding sick use... according to the CDC Flu View website the Flu cases in the 2014-15 season are running 5 times that of the 2011-12 season. Going to discuss this with my rep.

Originally Posted by Xray678 (Post 1821783)

So the flu rate is higher at Delta than it is at the other airlines?

We can argue about the reasons, but the fact remains that Delta pilots sick out at a rate way above the industry average.

Originally Posted by GunshipGuy (Post 1821792)

What's United's average? I guess those numbers are readily available since we are being compared to them and American. Curious what their rate is...heck, I wonder where on our site it shows what our rate at Delta is. That must be easy to find since we are able to know what other airline rates are as well. I mean if it's a fact then we must have some data, right?

Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1821749)

Crewdawg,

The Bolded sentence above is incorrect. 78 is the guarantee before the vacation adjustment is taken into account. On reserve a week of vacation will raise your guarantee about 4-5 hours and two weeks of vacation will raise your guarantee about 8-10 hours.

In this case I put 4 days of vacation into the reserve calculator and the exact guarantee would be 80:36 or an increase of 2:36 above standard.

As far as no category having an ALV of 80 - I have no idea, I was just responding with the information the original poster provided.

Scoop :)

Originally Posted by Xray678 (Post 1821783)

the fact remains that Delta pilots sick out at a rate way above the industry average.

Originally Posted by crewdawg52 (Post 1821813)

Still dont know how you came up with 80:36. Been sitting reserve a while. Know what happens........... Oh well. Not gonna make much of it. But I disagree with your logic.