PSA help

Bid for the number of lines that you need so you get something that you want. For instance, if you are #43 on the list, bid for at least 44 lines. If you don't, and everything that you wanted gets picked up by people senior to you, they will give you what is left over.

ZeroTT

If there are 11 lines to bid, the top 11 seniority pilots are lineholders

ACEssXfer

No. You are misunderstanding his question and most likely do not work at PSA or at the very least do not have a good grasp on our bidding process.

GoVandals

I recall reading the current SCR and LCR times for new hires by base but I am now having trouble finding the post/thread.

If anyone would post a link to that information it would be appreciated. I'll be attending training next month and am looking at bases based upon commuting from OKC.

Thanks.

PSA help

A new chart should be out in a day or two. Round 2 lines close today.

Right now, reserve times in CVG/DAY/DCA are about a month, about 6-8 months in CLT (something like that).

Attrition is staying at a good and steady rate, and we are upgrading about 25 a month, so reserve time has been, and should remain, short. As more 700's come on property, that should increase the number of lines (especially in DCA), and will help keep the reserve time and upgrade time short.

Systemized

Thanks for bringing that up


The union leadership has failed big time by letting the arbitration(we were never going to win) drag out forever. They should of worked something out with the company regarding added rules to reserve grid buffers and modifying critical pay when the conflict begin in the fall of 2014.

Meanwhile, the pilot group has been waiting 2.5+ years for this arbitration decision that we are not going to win. We are losing QOL with the current reserve grid buffer policy and loss of potential earnings with the watered down critical pay

There's no language in the contract regarding reserve grid buffer rules, so there's no way the union can win this. An arbitrator can not rule on language that does not exist. That's why we are still waiting after 2.5 years. We have good critical pay language but the critical pay is based on the reserve grid buffers. The only good option for the union is giving up a little bit of the critical pay language in order to get reserve grid buffer rules.

BizJet

I flew a guy two trips ago who agreed the rules should be changed to help get QOL back. He says it's stupid that one day going critical makes the entire trip go critical. He said guys were making $$$$ by adjusting all their trips by one day to trigger the SDO and CCP pay.

We talked at great length during the trip and came to the conclusion something has to break during the upcoming holidays. We both agreed that we could very well see trip locks on trips touching Christmas and Thanksgiving. He says it's unrealistic to think the company will let SAP happen.

Don't get me wrong. If I have the chance to SAP out of Christmas and Thanksgiving I will. I also look forward to SDO and CCP pay if I choose. However, I also see the possibility of something drastically changing.

He voiced this concerns back during the original contract road trips that this whole CCP, SDO, & non-restricted SAP was bad for everyone.

manney

How is non-restricted SAP bad for pilots?

The company covered Christmas last year just fine. They dished out money to solve the problem which is fine by me.

PSA help

Nope. I can not say enough how much I disagree with your post.

That captain sounds like a real...well...i'll leave that alone.

Systemized

As long as critical pay is tied to the reserve grid, the reserve grid will always be changing on a hour by hour bases.

I would have no problem giving up the reserve grid trigger for critical pay if the company agreed to set the buffers once a month at a "reasonable" level and not touch them until the next month. Junior mans trigger critical days and the company can still "elect" to declare days critical.