Well, in all fairness, that sink does look kind of like the old time metal troughs in men's rooms at sports stadiums. Wrigley field still has them. I've never actually pee'd in it though, as far as anyone knows.

Well, considering the rampers use that bathroom too, and we're talking about Newark, New Jersey. Home of Joe Bagadonuts.

I've got an icrew and a general GS question.

1. When filling out icrew to ask for a GS, when you fill out the section that says "enter all flying days for award", does that cover only the date of the actual award or is it supposed to cover all days of the trip?

2. When there is an available GS with <2 hours to report, does scheduling at least have to call people who haven't had a GS yet before they call those who have?

I ask since I was passed for a 2 day GS in favor of somebody who is senior to me but has already flown one. I am on a PB day (TOFF on schedule), I entered 03 Dec - 03 Dec under "enter all flying days for award", I have no restrictions on the GS request, and I'm on a RES day tomorrow. The GS in question is <2 hours to report, I saw it in open time and thought I'd be getting a call fairly soon but now I see it's been covered. Any ideas?

"All flying days for award" means all the days you want to work. Not just the day the trip is assigned.

If you wanted a 2 day GS you needed to put 03-04 DEC.

Sorry.

That template is easy to misinterpret. The only worse one in iCrew was the old "Move X days" template. At least they finally cleaned up that one a little bit.

For your second question:
If you are both legal for the trip then they have to proffer you GS #1 before they move on to someone for a GS #2. Even if he's senior to you.

1. The all flying days for award needs to cover the entire rotation.

2. They have to call the same order as any other green slip

With your 03-03 request you are limiting yourself to only a one day rotation - see #1.

How exactly is Crew Scheduling managing to staff flight to keep this 100% completion factor thing going? On my days off I keep getting those "inverse rotation" calls, often with check in times just a mere couple of hours away.

I had a friend from DFW tell me the whole day was cx'd there, and replaced with a couple of mainline flights. I guess those just get dropped into open time? How does that affect the ALV for those categories? I hope someone is keeping an eye on that in this season of contract negotiations...

It's pretty telling that this is happening now, just when we were supposed to be getting those ERJ's. They must have been counting on a new fleet at mainline to protect the feed. Well, the pressure's on them now. All these problems are easily solved with a pen and a checkbook.

What base?

Are you referring to the E190s from failTA15? There's no way they could have stood up that category that fast to start revenue flights from this summer if we had voted yes.

Which fleet?


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