And now....REG to RES....
#11
That would make my life much easier. As for me, I've just decided to commute home for my 30/7. I'll check my schedule occasionally during my 30 hours of rest, yellow slip a 2 day that will basically render me useless tomorrow and make my commute much more predictable and if they don't give me the YS and I get myself in a bind somehow with commuting out, I'll rent a car and drive since it's about a 4.5-5 hour drive. The things we do to be home, even if its counted in hours.
#12
I see no reason why Delta can't make all of this WAY easier to benefit all parties involved. With the rules auditor, full access to your current/future schedules and the PWA/117, iCrew should lay answers to these questions out in a simple and easy to understand format. Very few other jobs I can think of require an employee to consult his or her working agreement as frequently as we must. When I'm on reserve, iCrew and an app on my phone should show me:
You must answer your phone between X and Y and check your schedule NLT Z. Click HERE to add a notification alarm.
You are not required to answer your phone between A and B.
You should be in a period of rest between C and D.
The earliest you may be contacted is E.
If you are not contacted prior to F, you will be released. Click HERE to add notification.
You may be legally extended as far as G.
There are H people junior to you in your bucket.
There are J people senior to you in your bucket who currently have yellow slips submitted click HERE to see the parameters they have entered)
You have the following White/Yellow/Green slips active:
(ClIck HERE to edit with a modern interface)
Open time trips meeting your parameters are these: (click to view)
...which will be assigned after the displayed time.
You are/are not the most senior pilot with a matching slip submitted.
Click HERE to text your scheduler a question or comment.
Click HERE to open a chat window with your scheduler (all chats will be recorded).
Click HERE to acknowledge and view rotation 1234, which was added to your schedule at WXYZ.
NO NEED to click HERE to make your dead head reservation SINCE THAT HAS AUTOMATICALLY BEEN DONE FOR YOU AND YOUR SEAT PREFERENCES WERE AUTOMATICALLY APPLIED; YOU ARE LISTED FOR ANY AND ALL UPGRADES. Your confirmation code for dead head on fight 1235 is ABCDEF, but you need not check in since that will be done automatically when you sign in for your rotation.
[Copy right/patent pending]
You must answer your phone between X and Y and check your schedule NLT Z. Click HERE to add a notification alarm.
You are not required to answer your phone between A and B.
You should be in a period of rest between C and D.
The earliest you may be contacted is E.
If you are not contacted prior to F, you will be released. Click HERE to add notification.
You may be legally extended as far as G.
There are H people junior to you in your bucket.
There are J people senior to you in your bucket who currently have yellow slips submitted click HERE to see the parameters they have entered)
You have the following White/Yellow/Green slips active:
(ClIck HERE to edit with a modern interface)
Open time trips meeting your parameters are these: (click to view)
...which will be assigned after the displayed time.
You are/are not the most senior pilot with a matching slip submitted.
Click HERE to text your scheduler a question or comment.
Click HERE to open a chat window with your scheduler (all chats will be recorded).
Click HERE to acknowledge and view rotation 1234, which was added to your schedule at WXYZ.
NO NEED to click HERE to make your dead head reservation SINCE THAT HAS AUTOMATICALLY BEEN DONE FOR YOU AND YOUR SEAT PREFERENCES WERE AUTOMATICALLY APPLIED; YOU ARE LISTED FOR ANY AND ALL UPGRADES. Your confirmation code for dead head on fight 1235 is ABCDEF, but you need not check in since that will be done automatically when you sign in for your rotation.
[Copy right/patent pending]
Since this technology is available today, but we are talking about Delta, I would expect delta IT to be able to make this happen around 2028.
#13
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 534
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Am I thinking about this correctly...If one gets a carryover GS from a REG to RES (with X days at beginning of RES month) the block for the REG month is paid at GS pay. The block for the RES days and the credit are paid on top of guarantee, and PB days are issued for those X days.
Right?
Right?
#14
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 2,199
Likes: 15
From: Petting Zoo
Am I thinking about this correctly...If one gets a carryover GS from a REG to RES (with X days at beginning of RES month) the block for the REG month is paid at GS pay. The block for the RES days and the credit are paid on top of guarantee, and PB days are issued for those X days.
Right?
Right?
#15
Straight QOL, homie
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 4,202
Likes: 1
From: Record-Shattering Profit Facilitator
I'm not going to pay jack squat for Delta to do it. Their IT product is already downright embarrassing. Say, whatever happened to that revolutionary crew interface Dickson promised 5 years ago? Another broken promise.
Pilot candidates are going to be increasingly scarce the more Delta tries to pinch pennies. Contract, hotels, IT inadequacy. I now encourage my mil buddies to not even consider a Delta interview unless they're planning to use it as "practice" , with no intention of ever working here.
I'd gladly pay double--triple!--for iCrew mobile to implement Ted's suggestions. $100 bucks/year. No problem. Delta would probably expect us to give up thousands to pay for those improvements.
#16
You may call scheduling and have your days moved, so you don't lose the X days. You are working for free if you do not get the days moved. There is no extra pay for a lineholder working on an X day when transitioning to reserve. To make matters worse, if it is a credit trip, you lose the credit. You only get paid block in July. The credit counts toward Aug which is res.
Thanks for the insight. After some contract review and a polite conversation with a scheduling supervisor, it comes to pass that you are correct. Only clarification is that once you have the trip on your schedule that spills onto an X day, you must first fly the trip, then call scheduling and then they will "move" the covered X day to the next reserve on call day. They wait until the trip is finished being flown, in case of a reroute or some other such issue. Makes good sense.
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