Disclaimer: Admittedly, I don't want to roll backwards any farther than I already have over the past two years, but having said that, I would highly advise anyone thinking about NYCM88A to have a long look at the bid packages from the last several months. The overwhelming majority of trips have become non-commutable on BOTH sides. Nothing like turning that 4 day into a 6 day trip (and not getting paid for two of the days). Further, EWR now makes up nearly one third of the trips and judging by the fact that those are the only ones you ever see in open time, I'm guessing they're not that popular.

So look before you jump, and please be gentle, I'm almost out of KY jelly


Oh, BTW....happy Saturday night before Father's day to everyone:

 

Suggestion from the peanut gallery

You could do what that little ALPA LCC on the C and D gates does; If the door is closed you get paid ....

Tell RA that if you're not getting paid and the APU decides to burst into flame, you'll quietly gather your belongings, call him and walk off the airplane.

He gets paid for all of his duties. Right ?

 

In the left picture, they look a bit… silicon-ey (silicon-ish?) don’t they?

 

Not that I'd complain or anything...

 

That doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling at contract time, when SWA gets over 80 hrs for reserve plus 25% more an hr. Come on Timbo, you sound like thats just the way it should be.

 

I didn't get that at all. He is just relating what it has been in the past.

Denny

 

.....AND, I might add, our duties start long before the door is closed/beacon is on/parking brake is released, whatever, and end after all of the previous actions have taken place.....

 

Amen!! Pay us from report.

 

Denny,
He says, the very reason we only get paid 70 for reserve is because...some guys only work 6, 7 days.

Most guys work right up to 70 hrs, the key is some guys. So his quote above says that he thinks thats its accepted what we get paid for reserve. I think it should be higher and would like to think our pilot group would too. So what do you not get at all

 

That is the former north way of how the clock starts.... my regional was the same way.

The trick is to recycle the brake after the cabin door is closed... same with either keeping it released or recycle it right before the cabin door opens.

This way we can get paid and block out instead of flashing the beacon for 30 minutes waiting for pushback and not following thechecklist

We can finally use the beacon the way it's supposed to be used on this one and actually follow the checklist. One of the many things that make me twitch on our stuff that is being corrected finally.

This way we can get paid and block out instead of flashing the beacon for 30 minutes waiting for pushback and not following the checklist (thus not attracting the ire of roving ACP's looking for heads to roll). Mo money, mo on time. Good all around.