And then they let Captains pick up FO trips at time and a half, essentially paying them somewhere around 6 times what they would have to pay a new hire. Continental uses and abuses their reserves. We should take their misery as a lesson for our contract negotiations.

Speaking of Continental, their work rules and schedules are inferior to ours, but one thing they have over us that I would like to see in our next contract for reserves is the ability to aggressively pick up a trip. Here at Delta we put in a yellow slip request, and then they may or may not even look at the trip we are requesting. At Continental the long call pick up window I believe starts at 11 am and once they have that trip for the next day they have no further obligation until that check in time. The short call agressive pick up window then starts at noon, but their short calls are still given a call period, but once they pick it up it is on their schedule, like a line holder picking up a trip, rather than a request to scheduling like we have.

 

And fly even more, just ask ACL how much he worked last summer. Plus you get to do 24 hour short calls.

Go Saints

 

Must be for all that extra flying that's coming our way from the LGA slot swap.


Is that systemwide? or within a specific base?

 

Looks like a lot of the FEB schedules are out.

Viewable if you replace "jan" with "feb" in the link from your last months schedule.

 

Whoever that Ligero guy is makes a lot of errors. I do not think I like him.

 

FTB,

Did you see this?

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I didn't get it until I tried to pull up your schedule. No. It's not out yet.

 

That's a neat trick. I didn't know you moonlighted as a hacker

Unfortunately for us lowly narrowbody B's the skeds usually don't come out until the very end. Always out well before the 17th though, so I'm not complaining. I'm always amazed that someone's in the office over the weekend to make sure us prima donnas get our schedules BEFORE the contractually required time. Pretty nice

 

Ligero and I are tight. He always sends me notes this time every month.

 

Anybody catch this last night? Time to Tebow!

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - Tebowie (1/12/12) - Video - http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com