That's my point. The union accepted an unacceptable LOA, the Pilots explained to said union that it's crap so it died. This process hurt the union/management relationship. They now, somewhat accurately, think the union "has no idea what the pilots want" -RW

 

No, It's 10L

 

Fixing reserve is simple. People just want to know before the last flight the day before if they need to get to the airport to work 4am

 

That would be nice...

I would also like the contract to say on your last day of reserve you can not be assigned a PM shift! (period!) It’s easy to spend a week in LGA if they are short staffed. Commute up a Day before (0400 RAP) followed by 5 days of reserve (day five being a PM standby, because they have “ no one else”) now you miss your last flight (if you don’t get JM) home so day 7 comes and you get to go out on the first flight..


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I think they key is the lack of communication. I went to the last DFW crewroom visit and I felt like the union reps had no real agenda or nothing really to present or say. No real timeline of their efforts in the future regarding talks with the company. I think there needs to be more accountability on their part and like some already mentioned, the union needs to connect with the lower half of the pilot group which have only been here for less than 2 years. I was amazed how in the last crewroom visit I felt like I was talking to management instead of my union rep. I don’t need hear “The company is not going to give us a pay raise” like if they were speaking on behalf of the company instead of the pilot group. I don’t need the union wasting our unions due on pointless crewroom visits in order to tell me something that is obvious. What I want hear is what is being done in order to get what the pilot group wants.

 

Maybe the union should use our money to wine and dine management. You know... drop some donuts in the morning, have an appreciation day for them and then run out of food before 10:30am, call them at 4am and welcome them to come sit reserve with the pilots in awesome crew rooms, make them fly 5 legs on day 4 and finish at 5pm so they can’t commute home to their families. Invite them to sit on the plane for an extra 20min while the rampers casually walk out late twirling their light sabres.

 

Man ain’t that the truth. It only seems to be getting worse.

 

Cockpit to ground how are you doing? Yea all good down here. Crickets... and anything to add to that? Yea FOD good, steering ok.

 

Lmao. I hate to hate on our guys. But it also drives me nuts when we've have to run an engine at the gate for a deferred APU, for 15 minutes after blocking in. Maybe they think we're just doing it for funzies.

 

Rampers at DFW has been one of my biggest complaints with this company. Really embarrassing when parked sideways so that half the passengers on the plane can see their lackadaisical attitude towards their job while we wait for them to mosey into position AFTER showing they show up 5 minutes late. That said, on my last sequence, I was so surprised with how improved they were for the entire sequence, I commented that there had to be a change in management for something like that. Captain agreed. Hope it's permanent and not some coincidence.