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Originally Posted by DFW Refugee (Post 842545)

Catagory please?... :)

DTW 7ERB, on reserve, 10 day Asia trip

Wow - great stuff, all. Matches up with what I've heard from the DAL pilots I know (positive and negative).

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Wuzzo

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Originally Posted by reddog25 (Post 842567)

That blows my mind...easy to do. So a RSV pilot is going to get single pay for the trip and be gone maybe 10 days....must not be married, or is and needs to get over to the orient for a few days:cool:

I saw a 744 FO get a GS 5 day with 17 hours block but 36 hours credit. He got 72 hours pf pay to DH to HNL through LAX, then fly to NRT, bounce around Asia, & go back to DTW via HNL.

I don't think it's as easy to break them up when their inter Asia trips that don't make it back to DTW until the last day.

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Originally Posted by Denny Crane (Post 842487)

That's correct. If you change a GS, WS etc. you go to the bottom of the group until the next PCS run. If you can, the best way to avoid this is to change your slip just prior to a PCS run so you can avoid this as much as possible. I don't know the contract reference or if there even is one but it's been done this way for a long time.

Denny

The best way to avoid this is to submit a second GS with the new parameters you want. Do not change or delete the first one unless it is right before the 7am or 6 pm windows. That keeps the first one active at your seniority level and the second one will be in but you go to the bottom of the list.

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Originally Posted by NERD (Post 842593)

Pineapple won't like this but he should have called in sick after trying AA and airtran . By calling in stooopid he not only lost money on the denied boarding but lost his trip to boot. Too bad Dalpa was in such a rush to get a contract alone vs. working together to cherry pick...As more and more of you southies commute you will realize the value of our call in honest program.

Sadly NW was never able to negotiate any type of call in honest policy in their contract. The only call in honest policy was in the Delta contract. NW flight ops had extended a policy only that could be revoked at any time to the NW pilots for commuting. All attempts to get that policy in the contract at NW failed. There was nothing to bring over to the joint contract.
The joint contract was negotiated by both NW and Delta pilots. The Delta pilots did not do it alone. The NW pilots voted to ratify that contract with a much higher percentage of yes votes then the Delta pilots.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 842570)

...and the prospects of it hiring much less hiring a nobody like me was just too much to stand.

In a world of nobodys, you are definitely somebody FTB. Nobody does Somebody like you. :D

Carl

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Originally Posted by DFW Refugee (Post 842545)

Catagory please?... :)

M88 I am pretty sure..

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Originally Posted by reddog25 (Post 842561)

Hope he was a REG pilot and not RSV...He'd make over 130 hrs of pay no credit:)

Assuming it was a reserve (and the trip was completely covered on his X days), he would work this one trip and get 137 hours AND get his X days back... the regular line dude would still have to work his regular schedule... much much better deal if it was a reserve.

Edit: Dang Denny.. you beat me to the explanation

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Originally Posted by reddog25 (Post 842567)

I don't understand your logic here... this is a smokin' deal for a reserve pilot. It is one part of the contract that we should all vote no on if management tries to change (like they supposedly did the last contract).