Pedro4President

Couple things to add. DTS can only be used by line holders.

Vacation slide is limited to one day for reserve pilots if it leaves you with one reserve day between day off and vacation. So if you had three days off then one day reserve and then vacation then you could slide it next to the days off.

Also feel free to call your rep to explain it better. I had a rep explain it pretty good last year.

highfarfast

While we're on DTS, I had a captain tell me a while back that you can request to have your sick time used to cover the DTS days that are not during your vacation days.

1) Is this true?

2) If true, how do you go about it?

Got vacation coming up for the first time.

bigtime209

Believe it or not, it's true. Unless within the last 12 months or so they decided you can't. Email your pay comp auditor.

FlyPurdue

I have a question on a kind of confusing IOE displacement...

I am ORD based (but live in DFW), and successfully traded a 2-day in ORD, for a 2-day in DFW (same days). Yesterday, I added a turn to the end of my DFW 2 day for 150%.

This afternoon, I was notified that I was displaced from my DFW 2-day (+OT) for IOE.

My questions are as follows:

1. Do I have any 'right' that when they add flying back to my schedule that it has to be in DFW, despite being ORD based? 11.E.1.j seems to indicate that they need to start me in DFW.

2. How do i make sure that I am pay protected for the OT?

3. If I were to decide to not be pay protected to the OT, does that mean I am only good on the last day till my original end time +3 hours?

Thanks for the guidance!

havick206

There’s an LOA 16-01 that covers lost flying and how to deal with pay protection for OT rates. There’s a bunch of stuff you have to do in order to keep the 150% otherwise it’s straight pay. It’s all in the loa.

FullThrust

Assuming you are an FO there is almost zero chance they will reassign you flying...

Pedro4President

Wow. Really good questions.

These are the type of questions I'd email to the union for guidance. I wouldn't trust a single bit of information that came out from this forum with these difficult nonstandard questions.

highfarfast

These are definitely read the contract and ask the union reps type questions but will add something from personal experience that’s similar to one of the questions. I was doing TDY in LGA last fall but DFW based. I was displaced from a trip that started in my TDY month from LGA but continued three days into my non-TDY month where DFW based and on reserve.

First day of the trip, no reasignment. Second day of the trip (and now in new contractual month), no reasignement at the noon prior day point but later in the day I opened quicktrade to look for OT opportunites and noticed I had been tagged with a RAP 2 in DFW for that second day. Knowing that was innappropriate, I called CS and complained and was given the day off (I’m pretty sure it was not intentional, just a mistake with the transition). Third and fourth day, I was reasigned a two day LGA trip but started and finished with a deadhead from/to DFW. Pretty sure that was innapriate too under the deadhead rules of the time but I didn’t complain with that one, lol.

These odd situations can trip up CS too so just know the contract and be ready to reference the appropriate sections when needed and sometimes their mistakes will benefit you. ;-)

llws

1) The flying should be DFW.
2) Check the LOA as previously mentioned. Don't forget to email your pay comp auditor.
3) Not exactly. The end of the OT flying is now considered to be the end of your "original" duty day. That said, anything beyond the +3 of non-OT flying should be coded as OT (or EX).

yeahbutstill

Are you able to trip trade with a CDO?