Here's how it works:
You can arrive on the 10th, but it is up to you to contact the hotel and let them know you only want to use the hotel on the 10th and 11th, not the 9th.
That way they'll keep your reservation.

It's how I've always rolled and it works like a charm.

Res G/S question. If you are given a green slip, when do they remove the future reserve days from your schedule? Is when you are awarded the G/S, when you check in for the G/S or at completion of the rotation?

I may way to personal drop a couple reserve days, but only if I get a G/S. If I’m awarded a G/S then on the next PSC run, drop a couple days and have my payback days applied afterwards. Make sense?

Thx,
Humboldt

I've seen PB and PR days applied to my schedule coincident with when the GS itself is posted there. You aren't likely to see a delay allowing you to PD something before PBs are applied (in my experience).

Saw a job posting for LVP. Posting doesn't give much info, wondering if anyone here has done it and can give info?

Do you lose control of your schedule? I'm guessing you have to just fly where ever they tell you to do LVP stuff.

I tried to understand the pay in the contract but it's confusing. What's a good ballpark guess for the pay?

Any other stuff I might want to know about? Thanks.

PM me if you'd rather.

They are supposed to place the PB days as soon as the GS is on your schedule. However...they often do not.

-->IMPORTANT! Once you have finished a reserve GS, you get nine hours free of duty from release, then your PB days start. However, while we all might "assume" that this is an automated process, we would be wrong! This is a MANUAL process that the scheduler is supposed to take care of. I flew three reserve GS last August and in two of them the scheduler did not do that. One of them we blocked in an hour late, but the PB days started as if we had blocked in on time. Ditto for the second example, except that one was even worse--no PB days were even put on my schedule and then scheduling tried to put me on short call! Both situations were rectified with a phone call, but take ownership of your schedule! I asked the supervisor "shouldn't this be automated (like almost all other rotation details are)?" Her answer was "we've asked for this many times, but been denied due to programming costs."

(I had an earlier answer but I think I was confusing myself). I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. If you wish to drop reserve on call days later in the month, think of that as a separate event. As for the reserve on call days after your reserve GS, the contract is pretty cut and dried: you get nine hours free of duty after release, then 24 hours free of duty for every X day violated by flying the GS.

When are qt schedules published? I have initial in the middle of next month and icrew is asking for the days I want a hotel but I don't know which days or periods I'm actually in training.

Assuming you looked on deltanet-fleet-sim schedules
Maybe your fleet has an issue, our fleet is published for all next month.

Looks like the 320 is only out through December.

Sometimes it's 14 hours. Don't recall if that trigger is international or ocean-crossing...

I think the poster in question wants to get a period of time off work but some of the days are denied due coverage. They want to use the PB days to drop those but there are work days before them and they don't want to drop those ones without the denied days. Basically they are hoping to game the system and only have to drop days if they know they have the PB days but the system won't allow that kind of game.

Looks like they just updated it and schedules are out now for jan.

Just looked and it’s only through 31 Dec.

You probably need to clear your cache or something. A320 qt had my schedule all the way into feb. Search your name and it should find it.

Did all of that, no luck.

Your probably clicking on sim schedules. That's not what you want. Click on qt schedules. The qt schedules show all your training, including the sim.

It’s there now. I did both earlier and did a doc search and “no matches found”.

Delta Nonrevs can now be placed in Virgin Atlantic premium seats if space available and vice versa. Pretty awesome news

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That’s great news! (Now if we can just get an agreement with AirFrance to place Delta nonrevs in premium seats on Delta metal out of CDG.) :D

401k Catch up 2020 question
 

So I turn 50 next year, little confused on the mechanics of age 50+ catch up.

Google tells me that in 2020 the income limit on employer contributions is 285,000.

Employees are limited to 19,500

Age 50+ are allowed a 6,500 catch up contribution.

Total combined employee/employer limit is [for 50+] is 63,500.

So an employee could put in a max of 26,000 and Delta a max of 45,600 (16% of 285,000), but of course the total cannot exceed 63,500.

My confusion lies in the 6,500, does it matter who contributes it? Let's say I make 285,000 next year (sadly, the MEC's new war on greenslips combined with better weather next summer renders this scenario unlikely) such that Delta contributes the full 45,600. Does that mean to max it out I 'only' have to contribute 17,900 to meet the limit? In effect, Delta adds the 6,500 catchup?

I realize in many respects it doesn't actually matter, but its still annoying me that I can't figure it out. Let's say that [regardless of the financial wisdom of doing so] I want to make all of my 2020 401k contributions from my profit sharing check on Feb 14. If I think I will make >= 285,000 from Delta next year, how much should I contribute from PS?

I am clearly deep in the realm of very good problems to have. Appreciate any help

I note the smiley face face emoji, but do you really see that as an issue? My family and I have been thru Paris 6 times in the last 4 years, and have sat up front every time without issue.

Yes. When AF agent place S4s up front and you in the back, it kinda stinks.

Only you can make the catch up contribution. Essentially the only thing that changes in the year you hit 50 (other than aches and pains :p) is that you have the ability to designate a catch up contribution on fidelity and stuff that money in on top of everything else you were already doing.

All depends on your perspective. S4s love it.

How do I "designate" it? Better yet, who can I talk to about the mechanics of this? I'm on the phone with Fidelity and so far we're not getting really far. Like I said, good problem to have. But still.

You should be able to elect a percentage to go towards catch up contributions by going to the NetBenefits site and selecting the option to change your contribution amount. If you don't see it there, it may be that you have to wait until the beginning of the year you turn 50 (ie Jan 1) for it to populate.

Hillbilly I sent a PM

Can someone explain why we have the technology in place to stop our 401k contributions automatically when they reach the limit, but it's beyond the capability of Optum HSA to stop those contributions (even though I set the contribution to $0 two weeks ago), thus necessitating old-fashioned snail-mail to fix?

Rant over.

Did you recently complete items on Rally that resulted in HSA contributions? Or was it a paycheck withholding that created the overage?

The Dec 15 check put me over, even though the Optum website pie chart indicated I was full and future contributions would be $0.

Just figure out what you expect from the health rewards, and put the difference in as a one-time contribution from your PS check...

Anybody know if ALPA has the January FO awards yet? Pretty sure the CA awards came out on Friday but no sign of FO awards yet.

It's getting really old waiting 5 or 6 days for them to come out every month, but I guess compared to all of the other IT shortcomings at DL this one is pretty low priority.

I’m guessing every FO‘s no fly list keeps getting longer making it much more lengthy of a process to complete our schedules.

I think we should pass the hat. If 8,000 FOs toss in 2 bucks we could fund an extra 12 shifts/overtime a year to get our schedules no more than 18 hours after the As.

I also think they should be released by category so little ones don't wait for the big ones. No one has given me a reasonable argument why we wait for release en masse.

They were previously released by category, which resulted in a constant stream of complaints about why some categories came out first. It's also more efficient to upload all the results at once vs uploading one category at a time.

Basically most Bs would release... and two days later ATL88Bs would release.

As I said, haven't heard a reasonable argument why we should delay schedules for thousands of pilots on our list every month. Every category has its pluses and minuses...bid accordingly if it matters. And there's no way some efficiency of uploading results should outweigh the thousands of man-days of additional notice many of us could have to plan and shuffle our personal lives. What does that "loading efficiency" gain... an hour or two of one or two people's time?

JMHO.

My favorite is when it posts today sometime and you see that the run time was on Saturday morning, 2 days ago.

Just change it so that A's can't be released until all awards are released. Problem would be solved in a week.

Sadly this is probably accurate :D

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