Mngmnt

I am a reserve FO base assisting right now. I've been with the company long enough to know what FDP and ready are I think, but I just want to see if this checks. First day was a deadhead with FDP at the end. I went to the hotel right when I landed. Second day was 10 hours of FDP during my normal reserve shift (1200-2200). I stayed in the hotel for that. It wasn't coded R10 or R08. The next day, I had FDP starting at 1200 until 1745, then a leg scheduled for 1830 departure. FDP coded as such again, not as ready. I don't need to be at the airport for that do I? Isn't that the regular reserve period with a 1.5 hr callout?

Hotel is kicking me out at 2pm, so I called crew tracking and the guy said FDP is ready reserve and I should have been at the airport yesterday from 1200-2200. I told him if thats the case then to change my status to ready reserve and have it reflect as such in my schedule. Didn't we put that issue to rest? Union issue, chief pilot issue, or me not understanding issue?

hdale

FDP is not ready reserve and if you are base assisting they can't have you sit ready reserve out of domicile. If you are TDY you can be put on ready reserve but not when you are base assisting. They need to extend your hotel stay if check out is 2pm and your show time is later.

prior121

This. ^

There are pretty much all new Crew Trackers since I was last on reserve in 2013. These guy's have no idea what they are talking about. One of them tried to tell an FO that he needed to fill out an ASAP report for calling in Fatigued. Uh what?

The company needs to extend your hotel so that the checkout time correlates with your showtime. (45min prior to flight or deadhead)

Lavdumper

I just signed up for known crew member via the lounge and verified employment On the kcm website.

Am I now in the system? And will I have any issues getting past security the first time with no bar code?

Mngmnt

Thanks...getting it fixed as I listen to the dance party ensue on hold. The first guy sounded like he was straight off the streets and didn't seem to know the difference between FDP and ready reserve, even when I asked pointed questions, nor did he seem to care. Guess next time I'll ask for a lead, but this guy put me on a brief hold while he asked someone else, which made it sound like if 2 people in there were telling me I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong. Hopefully those in crew tracking can get informed...isn't this the bread and butter of their job?

klondike

Not 100 per cent sure(98.5%), but I think you are good to go without the bar code. You just need your company ID of course and another form of ID. (Passport, Drivers license, etc.)

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skillett

Heard the E-Jet FO's that were awarded CRJ captain are getting held back without pay. I assume because $30,000 was just paid for their E-jet training. We are fat FO's and short captains. A different scenario but it happened to me on the mighty Beech back in 07'. The company owed me $7200 was grieved and settled. I got a whopping $800 out of $7200 Sounds like Mesa is resorting back to their old money saving tricks.

Treegreen

Heard the same^

Xdashdriver

If you ran the self-check on the KCM website and it came up verified, then you are good to go in the system. No barcode needed. I used KCM for about a week without a barcode. Just tell the screener you don't have a barcode yet and they will input your info manually.

Xdashdriver

If you are talking about EJET staffing, there are 100 active CA and 72 active FO per the 1505 roster. If they are being held back it is because we are short on EJET FOs. We still have Jan class EJET FOs in TRN status. Feb was a small class and are currently in sim. The March class is starting sim next week. March was a bigger than normal class, so when they're done with IOE things should ease up a bit. There was also a bit of a training bottleneck. It is likely a culmination of these things triggered holdbacks to the CRJ, if true.