Virtual Basing & TDY
10-11-2016 | 06:26 AM
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10-11-2016 | 08:40 AM
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There's an infinite number of examples of the company doing something stupid that has no cost advantage. Why do they DH crews to SEA to fly SEA-ICN, SEA-LHR, etc? Bottom line, every base will lose time with VBs. And the "no ocean crossing first leg" rule will be the first to go by surrender monkey LOA.
10-11-2016 | 08:55 AM
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Its a concession, but how many concessions come with the pilot's ability to single handedly eliminate them as soon as we want? So let's just do that if this MEMRATs.
10-11-2016 | 09:33 AM
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There's an infinite number of examples of the company doing something stupid that has no cost advantage. Why do they DH crews to SEA to fly SEA-ICN, SEA-LHR, etc? Bottom line, every base will lose time with VBs. And the "no ocean crossing first leg" rule will be the first to go by surrender monkey LOA.
Also why don't you call the crew planners and ask those questions? While we could stock a library with the history of stupid DAL decisions, often this stuff is done far beyond the scope of you and I posting on message boards. Sometimes there is even a rationale behind it.
10-11-2016 | 09:36 AM
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Do you have a crystal ball? Pretty early to be predicting what *will* happen.
Also why don't you call the crew planners and ask those questions? While we could stock a library with the history of stupid DAL decisions, often this stuff is done far beyond the scope of you and I posting on message boards. Sometimes there is even a rationale behind it.
Also why don't you call the crew planners and ask those questions? While we could stock a library with the history of stupid DAL decisions, often this stuff is done far beyond the scope of you and I posting on message boards. Sometimes there is even a rationale behind it.
10-11-2016 | 09:39 AM
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What would the procedure be to eliminate these bases if they are bad? Is it only at a mec level or do we get a vote at the end of the year? This is one of the only items so far of this ta that I am nervous about - not enough to vote no but I would like to have a veto if it sucks
10-11-2016 | 09:45 AM
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One thing that scares me about this is it doesn't totally prevent ocean crossings from happening on a rotation from a virtual base. Example: Company establishes a 75/767 virtual base in RDU. First day is RDU to ATL to PIT. Second day PIT to CDG. Third day CDG to PIT. Fourth day PIT to DTW to RDU.
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10-11-2016 | 09:54 AM
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What would the procedure be to eliminate these bases if they are bad? Is it only at a mec level or do we get a vote at the end of the year? This is one of the only items so far of this ta that I am nervous about - not enough to vote no but I would like to have a veto if it sucks
I see there are volunteers (good luck to those poor souls) here logging these sorts of questions, and for me this is probably #1.
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