John Carr

Correction to my post, there is no reason that pilot at airline A doesn't deserve ALL THE SAME compensation is what I meant.

NoDeskJob

New BOS E190 guy; need a little bidding help please....since they gave us zero bid training at training. They literally said, "you will shoot yourself in the foot for a few months, and then you will figure it out."

How do I minimize my number of commutes? I can't drop, swap, giveaway anything below 70 hrs, right?

Beechnut58

If you're new then you're probably on reserve. The best thing you can do is stack your reserve days 4-5 day blocks at a time. They will give you long call if they can and you may only get 2-3 of short call (best case). Other than that there isn't too much you can do on reserve. Idk when you started but reserve in BOS is about 8-12 months before holding a line.

aewanabe

To the best of your ability (may be nil as a new guy) try to get your RSV days to start on Tuesday-Thursday. Friday-Sunday starts will almost never see long call.

Southerner

Training is for learning to fly the airplane. IOE and after is when you should learn how to bid. If you are taught the intricacies of bidding prior to qualification training, you'll forget it all by the time you finish training. The instructors have been told to NOT cover how to bid, as it ends up taking up a lot of time during indoc, and it's basically worthless to the new hires anyway since they won't remember a word of it. People used to go into it, but were told to stop due to the classes running long. Plus, most of the instructors have literally NEVER bid before, so they aren't really able to teach it effectively. There are some guys who came in from the line, but many/most have no line bidding experience here. (Hired directly into training, then got numbers later, so never flew a line.)

There's a "day in the life" class that used to be taught after IOE that covers how to bid, etc. I don't know if it is still going or not. Call the scheduling committee too. Ask the guys in your crashpad.

If you are on reserve, you can swap reserve days if the days are "green" that you have reserve days on. Look at the reserve grid. If it has a surplus of reserves, you can drop or swap that reserve day. If you have flica alerts enabled, you can set up an alert for that day when it goes green.

Otherwise, like other people said, try to get your reserve days all grouped together, and try to start on Tuesday. Try to pick up open time on your first day if you see one that has a later start and will help you commute.

Don't worry, you'll learn quickly.

eman

For those considering sun and fun, have you seen this letter? I am not really sure what a Pilot can hope to do by seeing JetBlue there, kind of ambiguous but FYI:

http://www.jsfirm.com/SUNNFUNCAREERFAIR.pdf

I can't go myself but this may not be a loss.


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tom11011

The sessions are sold out. But I was curious what they would then be doing?

Spoilers

Under jetBlue it says...
We will not be taking resumes nor accepting applications.

BlueBlood

You can drop (UTO) one day of RSV
Swap RSV days to obtain 4-5 together
Wait for Move Up lines to get a PRL
Also ask for PM start the first RSV day
Remember the last day you Auto release at 17:00

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