Originally Posted by CRJDriver

For all you guys on reserve! Be careful when they schedule your ready reserves. I was just having some discussions with some other pilots. Look's like I've been given (and lots of others) a bunch of illegal assignments last month. If you are on L1 or L2, you cannot do a 3 a.m. ready reserve. Your ready reserve has to fall within your 14 hr. reserve window.

Straight from the contract:

b. A Ready Reserve period will not be scheduled to exceed six (6) hours and will be scheduled
within the fourteen (14) hour reserve period.

d. A pilot on LC1 will be subject to the same rules as a SC reserve pilot except as follows:

(1) An assignment awarded to a LC1 reserve pilot will not have a report requirement
earlier than nine (9) hours from the time the LC1 reserve pilot is notified of the
assignment. This nine (9) hour period will be utilized as a required rest period prior
to a LC1 reserve pilot reporting for duty.
(2) Between the hours of 1400 and 1600 hours the day before a single, or group of,
reserve days, a LC1 reserve pilot will contact the Company, one time, for an
assignment.
(3) If given an assignment in accordance with paragraph (2), above, the LC1 reserve
pilot will be considered on rest until the report time of the assignment.
(4) A LC1 reserve pilot will be available for assignment by the Company in the LC1
reserve window of 0500 and 1500 hours on each day of LC1 except when on
required rest. If the LC1 reserve pilot is on required rest, when the rest period is
complete, the LC1 reserve pilot will be available for any remaining LC1 window on
that day.
(5) After completing the reserve window at 1500 hours a LC1 pilot without an
assignment will be released from responsibility to the Company until the next LC1
window.

So, if you are on L1 (0500-1500) you can't do a 3 a.m. ready reserve! Only A1 could do those! If you are on A2 (0330-1730) and they call you for a 1400 ready reserve, you can legally leave at 1730. So, technically an L2 could never do a ready reserve, unless they pre-notify you and you sit ready for 2 hrs. ALPA has already been notified about this issue.

Originally Posted by The Chow

Can't you be pre-notified?

Originally Posted by CRJDriver

Of course, but it stil has to fall in your reserve window.

b. A Ready Reserve period will not be scheduled to exceed six (6) hours and will be scheduled within the fourteen (14) hour reserve period.

Originally Posted by H46Bubba

I know direct service to and from BGR out of CVG are history.

Originally Posted by CRJDriver

You were right. Here it is...

Delta Cuts Affect Maine Airports

(NEWS CENTER) -- Delta Airlines announced Wednesday that it's laying off employees and cutting back on flights. The company cites high fuel prices as the reason. Flights in Maine will be affected.

Rebecca Hupp, director of Bangor International Airport, confirms that ComAir, which operates Delta, Northwest and Continental flights, is eliminating its Bangor to Cincinnati flight.

Hupp says in its place ComAir will fly from Bangor to Boston. The company says it will increase flights as well as available seats.

At the Portland Jetport, Director Jeff Schultes says he has not heard of any flight changes, but that doesn't mean there won't be any. He says "even large airports are losing flights as we go into these hard times."

Schultes says shorter flights may be less likely to be cut because they cost less to operate. He says each summer the Jetport gets a flight from Minneapolis, but there is also one from Detroit. Wednesday Schultes wondered whether the Jetport would still be getting that Minneapolis flight.

Originally Posted by dbo861

One more quick question..is it possible to bid for a specific reserve window when you have one DA on your line?

I ask because this month I had a DA and they gave me mother effing A1 window and ended up having to sit ready at 6am. I have a DA next month too..and I don't want a crappy window again.

Originally Posted by The Chow

So all they have to do is change your window right? And on LCI or LCII all you need is 9 hours notice and you can go whenever they want you to. Your window isn't 5am-3pm that you can work...its the window they can notify you.

Originally Posted by Diver Driver

Ya, basically, all they have to do is notify you of a window change and then assign you the ready. It all comes down to how it's worded in the contract, but the way they have been assigning ready reserves to long call reservists have been illegal in the past.