Not sure what you mean by discrepancy. Because Delta must staff by position, not category, one category within a position may be overstaffed while another is understaffed. That situation can lead to the reserves available being consistently less than reserves required throughout a bid period.

 

It seems that you are describing how they are running it. The question I have posed, and am awaiting a response to, is where is Reserves Available defined?

23W defines Reserves Required, but nowhere (that I've been able to find) does it specify how the Available number is calculated. 23W mentions the Available number, but does not define it. I can't see anything that prohibits or allows them to not count a reserve pilot until he is marked OK - it seems to be an open interpretation.

As Mike pointed out, a pilot scheduled to finish OE on June 1st could be reasonably expected to be available at some point later in the month. If we aren't claiming credit for him, we are costing ourselves QOL in the form of schedule flexibility. This is happening in more categories than just NYC717B.

If [Reserves] Available is defined somewhere that a pilot must be marked OK before being counted, then fine. If not, I'm hoping to explore further and see if we can obtain a more pilot-friendly interpretation.

 

don't worry..a bunch of us will be done with 717 OE by the middle of June. Hopefully the staffing number will be correct around then for schedule enhancement

 

23 W. 1. a. defines A (reserves available) to be the number of reserve pilots scheduled to be on call in category for the entire day on D (the date in question). I agree that there is nothing in the language that allows them not to count a reserve pilot who has not completed his OE.

 

No, the discrepancy is between the count of "how many guys are actually on reserve" in the Reserve Availability Screen in iCrew and the count of "how many guys are actually on reserve" on the Reserves Required Screen.

For example the Reserves Required Screen shows 5 reserves required and 2 available, yet for the same day 6 pilots are on short call.

The difference is that line holders can't PD or swap and reserves can't move x-days because the Reserves Required screen consistently undercounts actual reserves available...
This is all happening in same base on same equipment. This has nothing to do with category level staffing...

Cheers
George

 

Now I'm with you. I believe the reason is that, to count as a "Reserve Available," a pilot must be on call for the entire day. A pilot who begins short call at noon is not on call the entire day, as he is at rest 0000-1200. Before he was assigned that short call, he was counted in Reserves Available, but once the short call and the requisite prior 12 hours' rest was put on his line, he was not.

OTOH, a pilot who carries a short call into a day from the previous day does count in that day's Reserves Available because he is on call, i.e., not at rest, for the entire day.

 

I hear ya. My comment was tic. I saw that 2 day in nyc go out on a gs to atl, I don't get how an atl resident would be able to pull that off but I can say I've had friend on atl737 get next day 4 day GS in nyc. It is possible when staffing has collapsed.

I don't get the number either, but one thing I thought is if they show 5 required on Friday but there are 7 actually available is it because of trips that went out earlier in the week that would knock out 2 on Friday? I look at that number all the time and it fluctuates all the time. I don't know why.

 

FYI Projected Training/Conversion dates from the most recent AE are out

Deltanet->Crew Resources & Scheduling->Advanced Entitlements

 

In practice, it appears they knock one off the avail list for every one they project to actually use. The numbers just don't add up

 

Could WSs play a factor in the calculation? Doesn't make sense I know, but nobody is saying the numbers make sense to begin with.