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05-17-2021 | 07:04 AM
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From: Airbus 320 Left
the only way to make extra on reserve is to pick up premium time (x in the box all the way to the right of FLICA), get called for a VDA, or break guarantee on your reserve days (credit over 75 hrs) then FCFS open time pick up goes above guarantee..
05-17-2021 | 07:35 AM
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Facinating that regionals let you do it, but major players don't. I keep seeing people say the rsv system at blue sucks..what makes it so bad?
05-17-2021 | 08:06 AM
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I get at least two PRLs every month on LCR. I get released by 0800 on my last day. I don’t usually try to PTO, so I can’t speak to that, but obviously your B/E/S has a lot to do with that. I have been able to swap days in the 1st 48 hour window the past two years with maybe one or two denials that were not user error ( like orphan days ). We don’t Have a “hard 2 hour call out”, it is 2:30. If it were a “reasonable” allowance, all the bang-out monkeys would push it to the limit and we’d have a lot more delayed flights than we already do.
Personally I’m quite enjoying our RSV system, especially this past year. The only time CS has put something in JETCRW in over a year it’s been PRL. Haven’t gotten a single call from them.
Personally I’m quite enjoying our RSV system, especially this past year. The only time CS has put something in JETCRW in over a year it’s been PRL. Haven’t gotten a single call from them.
05-17-2021 | 09:24 AM
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05-17-2021 | 10:53 AM
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From: Airbus 320 Left
IMHO it’s actually B6’s staffing model that sucks. Admittedly I am a w h o r e and I capitalize regularly on that same low staffing model. It’s sometimes impossible to swap days off so punching out for the day often is the only option which of course burns 4:12 of PTO per day.. we only accrue 6 hrs of PTO per month so do the math and it sucks.. Once again more of a staffing issue then a reserve issue. Some have issues with the 2.5 hr callout but it’s an improvement over the old 2 hr rule still tuff for some to make it.. In the summer months I prefer to be on reserve weekends off, I VDA my days off. I often get calls for 1 day of VDA into a reserve block the math works out nicely. Many summer months I can do better then I would with a Junior line and work half as much.. Its a hard pill for some to swallow that JB will always be “understaffed” in some’s opinion.
05-17-2021 | 11:13 AM
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IMHO it’s actually B6’s staffing model that sucks. Admittedly I am a w h o r e and I capitalize regularly on that same low staffing model. It’s sometimes impossible to swap days off so punching out for the day often is the only option which of course burns 4:12 of PTO per day.. we only accrue 6 hrs of PTO per month so do the math and it sucks.. Once again more of a staffing issue then a reserve issue. Some have issues with the 2.5 hr callout but it’s an improvement over the old 2 hr rule still tuff for some to make it.. In the summer months I prefer to be on reserve weekends off, I VDA my days off. I often get calls for 1 day of VDA into a reserve block the math works out nicely. Many summer months I can do better then I would with a Junior line and work half as much.. Its a hard pill for some to swallow that JB will always be “understaffed” in some’s opinion.
Im 80% in seat/base. I’ve only had the phone ring for a VDA once. I figured I needed a couple more years before that started happening with regularity.
05-17-2021 | 01:18 PM
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From: Airbus 320 Left
I’m around 88 seat and base. In 2019 I was averaging more than 2 per month and it was my best year ever I haven’t got a VDA since early March of 2020. Weekends off is key. Reserve starting on Monday or Tuesday and VDA on Sundays where almost all the calls
05-17-2021 | 03:52 PM
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It was that bad at times.
05-17-2021 | 04:15 PM
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From: Airbus 320 Left
Agreed but it was like that in 2015-2019 for me. It’s the only way for a junior pilot here to make big boy money.. We will be right back to 2019ish staffing next month thru August. Make money when you can is my approach..
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