Ok just looking at the reserve list for tonight and the TOP five or six guys end their last day of reserve at 1900 or later. A few were past 2100 and one was past 2200. The two junior guys got lucky with an R1 that finished early.

My “stupid” example went right over your head because you don’t have to commute. Like I said you have no clue. The last flight may be late but the second to last flight may be at 6:00 and you live an hour from the airport.

Again you don’t even understand that a pilot on RAP2 with a next day reserve assignment of any standby assignment or flight assignment is released at 5/ when ever they confirm their assignment. The RAP2 flipped to RAP1 is released at 6 pm (typically). You seriously have no idea the points I was making.

 

And again you weren’t here when we had pages of 2day back to back and three days trips with 18 days off. It wasn’t just the super senior guys getting those trips in the summer it was all the time. RW and the union are in agreement that it is due to the flight file we get. So again you have no clue what is really going on here.

 

Yah know, we’ve seen guys posing as pilots in the past that were REALLY obviously NOT pilots, but an extension of management. Dera is not nearly as obvious as what we’ve seen in the past. But his lack of understanding reserve is really questionable. It’s not like he just had a really short brush with reserve, it’s like he never delt with reserve.

 

Last few pages are full of win from dera.
Months of S1 without bidding for it - I know at least one former crj plug who would have a thing or two to say about that.
Released early on the last day - happens. Opposite happens about just as often.
Getting screwed out of commute when doing S1 on the last day - oh yeah, that 2pm or whatever release is far from guaranteed.
JM - it's raining JM on the CRJ side, CA and FO. But we don't talk about the CRJ, that's like a whole another airline.
Ditto to what P4P said about the 5pm release when next day assignments are confirmed and 6pm when rap swap.

Big point being, we are ****ed because this place has all the potential to be awesome, and it chose to ignore that.

 

Have you spoken with anyone on the scheduling committee? You will find all your answers there.

 

Read the previous posts, okay?

 

I have, you still appear clueless.

 

Just to expand on your points. The 145 schedules are inefficient and suck. By suck we mean there are a boatload of 145 flights that are in the air for about 30 minutes. So, not only are you not getting paid for not breaking guarantee, you are also not building much time for upgrade or your resume should you decide to go elsewhere.

You will also take all day in between flights changing planes. I've been on the 3rd page of the daily log book multiple times, meaning I was on the 9th different crew on that airplane in a day.

Dera made mention of some great lines on the 175. What he didn't mention was that there were about 30 of those great lines out of about 150, which will only go to the 30 lifer CAs and 30 FOs who will enjoy that QOL for maybe 2 months before going to upgrade. The rest were the Envoy standard.

Reserve is a reality at Envoy that is difficult to explain. We have a about 650 lines, so 1300 line holders between CAs and FOs, and about 2500 pilots on property. You will do time on reserve, if you don't do it as an FO, you will probably do it as a CA.

It is the little annoyances that really add up at Envoy. Other airline have mechanisms for building your schedule to match your QOL. Are you a commuter who wants to do 6 on 1 off 6 on, and have most of your reserve time done in two weeks? Not going to happen here. Don't care about the rest of your month, but really want two specific days off, sorry, no reserve lines have that built in. You want to swap your reserve days, sorry "denied due to staffing". You put in a request on the 4th to change your reserve day on the 10th to a day off... well, don't expect a response until the 9th, then it will be denied. It's the Envoy way.

Proffering for reserve on a daily basis is another headache, but don't you dare forget to do it, or 6am standby is in your future. It is just another annoyance that on your day off, you need to log in sometime between 10am and 2pm to put in your bid. Then log in again after 5pm to see what you were awarded. Doesn't sound like much, but after you have been doing it a few months, it gets old.

 

No I didn't forget to mention that. I said they were for senior guys - and I wish there were 30 of them, too bad you clearly don't know how the company works.

Thankfully any lineholder can trip trade to much better trips during the trip trade window. I, and most others I know who are somewhat junior, don't have a single trip left after their original line award.

I decided to get more credit, and a week off. No problems doing that.

 

I sure hope you are close to the 950 hour mark so that you get displaced to the 145 and commute to reserve.