CommutAir paid me $1840/month for nine months as they struggled to get anyone through training. Then downgraded me and an additional 5% of captains due to a weak LOA from ALPA. I suppose I was supposed to be happy about that?

 

Disclaimer:

How Potatochip behaves here is not how CommutAir crews are. He's kinda the 1%

 

I said what needed to be said. Now everyone will watch you prove me right or wrong. BYE

Nice talking to you again

 

PC said he was mostly happy, what more do you want? It doesn’t effect you or anyone else at Jetblue.

 

LCR = Long call reserve.

SCR = Short call reserve.

As far as the rest I'm sure you will figure it out yourself and figure it's not that bad compared to the 'stan'.

But for those of without that frame of reference, most RSV (reserve) schedules are known for the entire month. Here at Bluejet we traded giving the company the flexibility to assign RAPs (reserve availability periods) day before (ie Monday for Tuesday) for the hope that we could move, drop reserve days for QOL (quality of life).

Then ALPA local sold the sizzle but not the burn.
Not national our local guys!!!

So not only did the company retain the flexibility to assign your RAP on a DIALY basis (instead on monthly) they have the ability to change the RAP once assigned (new) and our ability to move or drop is now severely limited thanks to the LCR and SCR 1, 2, 3, and 4 day buffers being implemented (new). This affects lienholders too.

The two (new) potentially just wreaked RSV (reserve) and lienholder QOL without a peep from our ALPA local guys who sold this as a QOL contract. BTW when you read section 25 take a marking pen to the first paragraph. Its a BS and will never be implemented.

Oh well, they call we fly. Except now they call and change your RAP and then fly without the 'go pill'.

Look up FTG and FRE on your own!!

So yes it better than the 'stan' but so are a lot of things.

And sincerely thanks for your service!

 

If they call and start changing silo times start calling in fatigue. They will learn their lesson if everyone has balls and calls in fatigue if you are.

 

Directly alluded to that.

We get 4 system driven FREs in rolling 12 months and then we are included in some review.

 

Fre? Fatigue event of some sort I guess. If it’s system driven they can review me every time because it will show how bad their system is. I’ll bring faa and union lawyer in and let them try and pressure me to fly when their system cause never ending fatigue.

 

FRE = Fatigue Removal Event

 

I think some like to point out deficiencies so that other pilots, the "just happy to be here" types have an opportunity to at least begin to understand that things need improvement and to have higher expectations for next time. Otherwise, those same guys will just continue to say "we're not Delta" during every contract negotiations because they are still "just happy to be here" and culture and stuff.

Telling guys not to complain has never made a future CBA better, at any time in history, that I'm aware of.