A319 reconfiguration
 

It appears news of the A319's losing four first class seats hit the frequent fliers...there's a nasty thread going on another site.

I recall someone from corporate, maybe even Richard, saying the 319 in the NW configuration (F16Y108) wasn't making money and more seats were needed.

I thought we heard 130 seats total on the 319 but these folks are up in arms because seat maps show the planes going to F12Y114 - 126 total. That's only a two seat gain!!! All the effort & money to add two additional seats while removing a row of first class?

Congrats Denny!! Guess Im going to miss ya by that much. I'm converting in Sept (vs Nov) too.

Wow...The Holy Grail.

Enjoy man!

Carl

Thanks everyone! The company just decided to do it 2-3 months earlier than I expected.

Ferd,

Dangit! Missed you by thaaat much!!:) I'm sure we will meet up in Asia sometime in the near future! I think you will find your new commute fairly easy even if a lot of it is offline.

Denny

GS question
 

Scenario - you are on reserve with the remainder of the month off, next month you hold a line

If you green slip a trip, do you lose your days off? Do they bank those days until you have reserve again?

Thanks

They become payback days and are banked. You can use them to drop trips and get paid which is the best cost use. I used 3 to drop 3 8.5 hour turns which netted me almost 26 hours pay. If you don't use them by 31 Dec they become extra vacation days for the following year.

I was trying to find this in the contract. Does a payback day only cover 1 day of a trip?

A PB day is given for each day of the trip that you are gone. The PR is what is left over after the nine hrs of rest that is given before the PB starts.

23-U B.

b. A reserve pilot who has flown a GS rotation(s) will receive:
1) single pay and credit for the portion of such rotation(s) flown on his reserve oncall
days that occurred before the pilot’s accumulated credit exceeded the ALV
(applied against his reserve guarantee),
and
2) single pay, no credit (in addition to any other form of pay and credit for the bid
period) for the portion of such rotation(s) that:
a) interrupted his X-day(s), or
b) occurred after his accumulated credit equaled the ALV,
Note one: A reserve pilot who flies a GS rotation into an X-day(s) is entitled to
additional time free of duty under Section 23 S. 11.
Note two: A reserve pilot awarded a GS rotation in which all duty periods of the
rotation are scheduled to operate on on-call days may request that one X-day that
coincides with a day on which the pilot does not have a duty period within the GS
rotation be moved to the first day of the GS rotation.
c. A long call reserve pilot who is awarded a GS rotation with a report that is within 12
hours of the first attempted contact will receive single pay, no credit for the first duty
period of the rotation (in addition to any other pay and credit for the bid period).

23 S.11

11. A reserve pilot who flies on an X-day due to an IA, GS or reroute will be given nine
hours free of duty upon his release at the completion of his rotation.
a. His X-day(s) will begin immediately following such nine-hour period and will
continue until he has received a period of 24 hours free of duty for each interrupted
and remaining X-day in his scheduled X-day block.
b. If the remaining days in the bid period are insufficient to contain the X-day(s), the
pilot will be granted an additional day(s) off under Section 23 S. 16.

23 S. 16
16. A reserve pilot who is eligible for an additional day(s)-off under Section 23 S. 11. - 14.
will:
a. take such day(s)-off in the current or a future bid period, by mutual agreement with
Crew Scheduling, or
b. have such day(s) added to a current year vacation period(s), by mutual agreement
with Vacation Planning, or
c. have such day(s) added to his earned vacation for the next vacation year, if not used
in the current vacation year.

I still haven't heard the company say we were going go 130 seats on the A319's yet. I've heard a bunch of rumors, but nothing official yet.

I wouldn't think they would remove any 1st class seats, but I'm just a line grunt so what do I know? :o