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05-05-2016 | 12:50 PM
#2651
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It's a slight difference. Before, if you were only displaced for part of your trip you went home and had the option to call last out. also, they had to let 12 hours pass before they could use you again because you were a true long call. Now, they do not have to send you home for lcr after the flying that you were scheduled on your line. It's a very subtle change but it's very important.
05-05-2016 | 12:58 PM
#2652
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So what's their next gimmick going to be?
PSA offered a "cadet program" (with a limited payment of student loans). Then they offered $5000 hiring bonuses. Then they offered $10,000 hiring bonuses. Then it was $15,000 hiring bonus for anyone with prior 121 experience. Then it was $15,000 for anyone with 135 experience. Now they want to pay first officers $10,000 annually to keep first officers from jumping ship.
By my calculations, PSA is out of gimmicks! What do you think PSA will do next in order to keep this sinking ship afloat?
PSA offered a "cadet program" (with a limited payment of student loans). Then they offered $5000 hiring bonuses. Then they offered $10,000 hiring bonuses. Then it was $15,000 hiring bonus for anyone with prior 121 experience. Then it was $15,000 for anyone with 135 experience. Now they want to pay first officers $10,000 annually to keep first officers from jumping ship.
By my calculations, PSA is out of gimmicks! What do you think PSA will do next in order to keep this sinking ship afloat?
05-05-2016 | 12:58 PM
#2653
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So what's their next gimmick going to be?
PSA offered a "cadet program" (with a limited payment of student loans). Then they offered $5000 hiring bonuses. Then they offered $10,000 hiring bonuses. Then it was $15,000 hiring bonus for anyone with prior 121 experience. Then it was $15,000 for anyone with 135 experience. Now they want to pay first officers $10,000 annually to keep first officers from jumping ship.
By my calculations, PSA is out of gimmicks! What do you think PSA will do next in order to keep this sinking ship afloat?
PSA offered a "cadet program" (with a limited payment of student loans). Then they offered $5000 hiring bonuses. Then they offered $10,000 hiring bonuses. Then it was $15,000 hiring bonus for anyone with prior 121 experience. Then it was $15,000 for anyone with 135 experience. Now they want to pay first officers $10,000 annually to keep first officers from jumping ship.
By my calculations, PSA is out of gimmicks! What do you think PSA will do next in order to keep this sinking ship afloat?
05-05-2016 | 01:05 PM
#2654
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I agree that nothing so far has worked. I also agree that increases are needed. I'm just not sold on the idea that they care. I don't think they are delusional into thinking everything is great. I think they are well aware that we're shrinking instead of growing and I just don't think they really care. These nickels and dimes they throw out to "fix" the problem aren't fooling anyone. They have said are staffed to where they want to be and that's why they only need to hire for attrition.
05-05-2016 | 02:00 PM
#2657
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I agree that nothing so far has worked. I also agree that increases are needed. I'm just not sold on the idea that they care. I don't think they are delusional into thinking everything is great. I think they are well aware that we're shrinking instead of growing and I just don't think they really care. These nickels and dimes they throw out to "fix" the problem aren't fooling anyone. They have said are staffed to where they want to be and that's why they only need to hire for attrition.
05-05-2016 | 02:20 PM
#2658
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It's a slight difference. Before, if you were only displaced for part of your trip you went home and had the option to call last out. also, they had to let 12 hours pass before they could use you again because you were a true long call. Now, they do not have to send you home for lcr after the flying that you were scheduled on your line. It's a very subtle change but it's very important.
If you are on LCR with an assignment they can add stuff onto you until they have nothing to add. Same as always.
Also, last out for LCR is useless. You are not last from ALL reserves, you are last out of LCRs only. How many LCRs do you think there are? Most of the awarded LCRs get removed due to additional buildups. So there MAY be 2 or 3 LCRs total. Your schedules won't line up and the company calls LCRs before all other reserves.
05-05-2016 | 02:27 PM
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A day can go critical at any point in the month. So if LCRs begin taking trips out of the pot then that greatly reduces the chance of any day being critical. Now, if it's only a displacement option, that may make a little more sense, but basically the result is the same: more reserves, less open time = less days critical and less need for the company to Jr man from a list.
Also I'm assuming we are ONLY talking about pilots displaced into LCR, not every LCR. Even if it were every LCR there aren't enough out there to really impact staffing by picking up trips.
05-05-2016 | 02:48 PM
#2660
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Days rarely went critical during the month. Occasionally a day would go critical on the day of, or the day before but those days are not eligible for critical pay.
Also I'm assuming we are ONLY talking about pilots displaced into LCR, not every LCR. Even if it were every LCR there aren't enough out there to really impact staffing by picking up trips.
Also I'm assuming we are ONLY talking about pilots displaced into LCR, not every LCR. Even if it were every LCR there aren't enough out there to really impact staffing by picking up trips.
Also, often it just takes one pilot picking up a trip to prevent a day from going critical (if we have a hard staffing number on the reserve grid that doesn't change as reserves change).
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