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11-24-2014 | 02:49 PM
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11-25-2014 | 03:44 AM
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Does anyone know how these arbitrary reserve buffers are established? It's set at 23 for the last several days of November in Dulles. Seems like extreme overkill, and I've been told they don't release anyone on their last day unless they're at least two net reserves over it. My last day on happens to be Thanksgiving, and I'd love to have something intelligent or persuasive to respond to Crew Tracking with after they blindly tell me I need to sit the last three hours of "FDP" in Dulles after flying/deadheading all day.
Any ideas or tricks that've worked for other people?
Any ideas or tricks that've worked for other people?
11-25-2014 | 06:22 AM
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Does anyone know how these arbitrary reserve buffers are established? It's set at 23 for the last several days of November in Dulles. Seems like extreme overkill, and I've been told they don't release anyone on their last day unless they're at least two net reserves over it. My last day on happens to be Thanksgiving, and I'd love to have something intelligent or persuasive to respond to Crew Tracking with after they blindly tell me I need to sit the last three hours of "FDP" in Dulles after flying/deadheading all day.
Any ideas or tricks that've worked for other people?
Any ideas or tricks that've worked for other people?
All the flights are gone from IAD by 5PM on T-Day, and there are probably only like 5 flights total. If there's a day to sneak out early, that's it.
If you're AM, they should release you very early on T-Day with that many people on duty. If you're PM, they should release you by 5PM.
It would be very easy for them to algorithmically determine reserve numbers based on historical absences, holidays/weekends, and forecast block time, but you know--just cuz it's easy/cheap/simple to do something doesn't mean Mesa's gonna do it.
11-25-2014 | 07:08 AM
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Maybe not that much, like I said, there will be breaks for holidays, which would probably pull a few weeks out. There may also be fluctuations in the number of interviews conducted on any given week. Latest update from the VP of Flight Ops says we will be hiring 60 per month with a total need of 1,100 by spring '16. This doesn't account for early outs, etc, only age 65 and aircraft deliveries. Speaking of deliveries, we are getting 10 787's and 24 737's in '15. We are also keeping a number of 767-300's that will undergo a nose-to-tail refurb.
11-25-2014 | 07:37 AM
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How big does everyone expect Mesa pilot numbers to grow too?
11-25-2014 | 07:56 AM
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If the big three, (UAL, DAL, and AAG) each hire 1500 over the next 1.5 years, that'll be 4500 new hires. And if Alaska, Hawaiian, UPS, FedEx, Atlas, Southern Air, and other big boys hire a combined 1500, that'll equal 6000 new hire pilots,......... or 1/3 of the TOTAL REGIONAL PILOT GROUP in the next 1.5 years. And that's not even taking into account the hiring at the middle tier airlines, i.e. JetBlue, Spirit, Frontier, and Virgin or hiring at the decent-paying fractionals, (NetJets, Flex Jet, etc.).
11-25-2014 | 08:14 AM
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Any Mesa pilots commute out of Austin? Is it doable, or the most horrible thing ever? AUS-DFW would be easy, but what about to IAD, ORD, CLT, etc.?
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