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Originally Posted by FrankCobretti
(Post 734530)
If I have one beef with our Reserve program, it's this: pilots with <300 hrs in a given airplane need to fly. One or two short trips per month on Reserve, IMO, isn't enough to lock in a good a/c habit pattern when you're new to the bird.
What do you, esteemed colleagues, think of not assigning reserve flying to pilots with <300 hrs in a given bird/seat? The pilots just above them on the seniority list would get the Reserve lines, but over time that'd become part of the cost of doing business wrt to getting new guys up to speed. last place I worked did something like this. They did it till you got your 100hrs in 120days. An fo would bid with a lca knowing that his/her line would get pulled all month for the newbie to get to fly. fo's loved it since they had no work all month!! But I do agree newbies should fly a bunch right after getting checked out!! |
Apparently they will keep you in the same base and bid you down to the next lowest position in base that you can hold (I'm being MD'd off -777 NYC, so that means probably 765 B).
but I cant get into the system to see if my partial first cuts at MD are still in the system, or if I cleared them out to get a clean final later. So much for the fiance's surprise get-away to remote Vermont cabin in the woods with no cell-phone or internet - guess that backfired on her :eek: |
Originally Posted by alfaromeo
(Post 734388)
And there it is....an immature emotional outburst. See how easy it is to make personal attacks rather than deal with facts. If you read closely I never said that changing reserve will bankrupt the company, by the way that argument is really childish. I said that making the reserve system less efficient would cost money, and that that cost would impact improvements in other areas of the contract. If you don't think that is true then show me how that works. Again, throwing a temper tantrum really isn't proof of anything.
If you don't think pilot efficiency affects our total cost structure in relation to other airlines then you have no grasp on reality. I can guarantee you that any executive or any accountant or any union leader in any union you can find would agree with my stance. If we are inefficient in comparison to our competitors (surely you think that Jet Blue, Southwest, and Airtran are our competitors because they sure do) then that inefficiency will have to be made up with lower wages and/or benefits or the company will have to find a way to increase revenue above the competitors. That is not Kool-Aid my friend, that is basic economics. I think I was also quite clear that I have no objection to improving the reserve system. I am on short call as I type. The one thing about reserve is that is not just junior pilots. We have very senior pilots sitting reserve on the highest paying equipment. So your attempt at class warfare and junior self pity just doesn't ring true. What I have an objection to is self-delusion that is presented as a belief that you can improve your own little beefs with the contract for nothing. It has a cost, everything has a cost. I also said that the pilots and the MEC will have to decide where they want to put money in our contract when we get a better contract. Maybe it will be reserve, maybe it will be vacation, maybe pay, maybe any of the other items that exist in the contract. Maybe you will get your way and maybe you won't, that's how it works. As for the days of availability buckets, that is basically universal in the industry. Getting rid of that will be very expensive. Obviously, if you let the guy with 4 days of availability take the two day trip, then how do you get the guy with 2 days of availability to take the four day trip without paying overtime? Sure it stinks, I have been hit by this many times. You might have more success if you avoid the pointless personal attacks and really think about what you are saying. Your post makes no sense. |
Originally Posted by FrankCobretti
(Post 734530)
If I have one beef with our Reserve program, it's this: pilots with <300 hrs in a given airplane need to fly. One or two short trips per month on Reserve, IMO, isn't enough to lock in a good a/c habit pattern when you're new to the bird.
What do you, esteemed colleagues, think of not assigning reserve flying to pilots with <300 hrs in a given bird/seat? The pilots just above them on the seniority list would get the Reserve lines, but over time that'd become part of the cost of doing business wrt to getting new guys up to speed. |
I might do that. Calling Crew Scheduling and telling 'em, "Put me in, coach!" isn't doing the trick.
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Originally Posted by iFlyer
(Post 734528)
Someone's getting a belated Christmas present:
- forgot to update my MD bids by 0900 :mad::( |
Originally Posted by newKnow
(Post 734382)
Did they send us a vacation bidding guide as well, Denny?
It's amazing to me how fast I'm going from one subject or or porcess or bid to another to which I have no clue. (PBS, AE, Vacation, ect.) :) I haven't gotten a guide in quite awhile but vacation bidding is pretty strait forward if you know how may weeks you get. You bid vacation by the week and can bid it one week at a time to all of your weeks at once and any thing in between. The vacation start selection numbers are listed next to the day that week of vacation starts. When you enter your bid on option A from the Vacation tab menu, you list the week number and then how many weeks you want to start that will un consecutively. Since I get 5 weeks now, I bid my primary as a 2 week vacation and then secondary, tertiary, and quaternary as 1 week each. It's just how I like to bid. If I don't get a week I like, I try to bid it later in the vacation year and then try to move it up every month in the move up vacation bid process. Like I said, it seems to be a pretty strait forward process as long as you know how many weeks you have. That is based on your hire date. I mentioned in my previous post what the allocations were and it is also in Sec. 7 of the contract. If you have any questions Lynn Ivey(sp?) in vactions is the one to talk to and she has alway been very helpful the few times I have talked to her. Any questions, give me a shout. Denny |
Originally Posted by iaflyer
(Post 734501)
We could all have "A" days - the FAs seem to love those! ;-)
Carl |
Originally Posted by tsquare
(Post 734548)
OK.. fair enough. One question: Will you ever think that having 42+% of our pay, and ALL of our retirement will constitute having paid for anything... OR is it that "them's the breaks"? Can't never could do anything... Oh.. and it's not a personal "attack". It's pointing out a mindset that our leadership might have. I don't know who you are.. I think I might, but I really don't care. My point is that whenever anything that remotely involves improving our QOL is raised, the response is ALWAYS... how much will it cost... Buddy.. we have already paid for a lot more than we will ever get back.
Just kidding. |
Originally Posted by FrankCobretti
(Post 734530)
What do you, esteemed colleagues, think of not assigning reserve flying to pilots with <300 hrs in a given bird/seat? The pilots just above them on the seniority list would get the Reserve lines, but over time that'd become part of the cost of doing business wrt to getting new guys up to speed.
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