I got a quick question. I'm on reserve for November and got assigned a trip starting Thanksgiving day. What are my options for getting rid of this trip? I recently got engaged and was going to celebrate with my family and hers. I bid for Thanksgiving off but obviously didn't get it. I'll work the trip if I can't drop it somehow but I want to at least try. I thought about talking to a CP and explaining my situation and asking for personal leave. Not sure how that works, and I don't know if that would fly on a holiday but I figure its worth a shot and I hope the CP will be sympathetic. If not, I guess we'll just wait til Xmas to celebrate with our families, if i get off. lol

Thanks for reading and any advice

 

CP possibly will not help due to holiday. Also you have negated calling in sick since you have spoken to CP. I would put the trip on the board with a cash offer, usually works for me. If all else fails, go to doctor, say you hurt your knee playing BB and get a release for a few days. Call in sick and keep the note for back up. Just my ten cents. Good Luck and congrats on engagement. Any chance on talking you out of that??...lol kidding..

 

Yeah, if you are thinking you might be sick that day I would stay away from talking to anyone in planning/scheduling or CP office regarding this time off. I don't know much about scheduling or planning but I would assume they have some way of notating your account if you will (like calling the electric company about a delayed payment). I would be willing to say with most certainty a CP will not grant you this time off as a PL on Thanksgiving Day.

 

Request Denied....."staffing"

 

There is that word again...

 

Does anyone have any idea how many 70 FOs are on reserve? I have been hearing that 10 years will put a Captain on reserve after the furloughs. Boy did I pick the right airline or what?

 

There is close to 50 of us on reserve this month and there will probably be more next month due to the downgrades coming over.

 

You cant set performance numbers and then ask us to cancell flights so that you may have the slot and then count those against us....well I quess you can...but in contract law this will not hold up. United doesnt want us gone. Our numbers are good and they have increased our flying.

 

Your post lacks..... logic....Mr. Logic, it's undeniable that Mesa's performance is abysmal.

Maybe not so bad on the UA side as the Freedom DL side, but Freedom's performance was horrible leading up to Delta's decision to cancel.

 

Logic's post does not lack logic. If you knew anything about the case than you would know that what he said is exactly correct. How do you think Mesa won the injunction? Because their performance numbers aren't as bad as Mesa bashers make it and everything else out to be. There were tons of voice recorded calls to the SOC to cancel flights because Delta wanted to use that slot for their own 75's and 76's because obviously they could get more passengers to their destinations. Also, Mesa was/is operating in a tough JFK environment. Have you looked at JetBlue's performance stats? Bottom of the barrel. Not their fault though. I know a lot of people hate Mesa for one reason or another but this issue is not their fault and they have had good operational performance for Delta. Currently they are operating somewhere around a 99.6% ontime performance for Freedom, well above what the contract dictates. When the court case is all said and done we will all see that Mesa was in the right here.