SKYW: SkedPlus+ Ver 1.1
 

Anyone know anything about this? Interesting that it's for a 90-day trial...cowinkiedink? Is this the program that the FAs can drop all their trips into open time and rebuild? What will this do for our QOL? BH seems to think it's the answer to our prayers...if it works as advertised, it may be.

Is this the ALPA vote bone that we've been anticipating?

The timeing seems right

The schedule thing has been planned for months, before the alpa vote was announced. I'm thinking it will provide a small QOL boost in some situations, but unless you have a bunch of reserves sitting around doing nothing it's not going to translate to free vacation on demand.

Timing is certainly right on. As Rick said, I remember hearing about this a long time ago. I think everyone has their mind made up about ALPA by now. People who are still on the fence will probably vote for it due to lack of knowledge.

This should be a different thread, but I heard that in ASA's contract it says that any merging of seniority lists with another ALPA carrier will be based on ASA's date of hire. Is that true?

Thats what they have always been pushing for.

The standard language in contracts usually refers to the Allegheny-Mohawk precedent, which is essentialy DOH, but as you can see from the US-HP merger, that dog doesn't hunt so good anymore. Now I think the ALPA concept is "no windfall", and protecting "career expectations".

The APA concept has always been "staple 'em all to the bottom", but they're all a bunch of cold blooded killers over at AA.;)

Lots of F.A.'s told me it works well for them. Can't you take a 4 day trip and turn it into a three day by dropping one day? I'm not 100% sure on how it works. Bottom line, the flying most be done. If there is not enough people on reserve, you can't do anything.

You better believe that the release has something to do with the ALPA vote. Sure they talked about it "10 years ago" why are we just getting it now?

On a side note I hear the caveat is reserve staffing has to be adequate.
When has reserve staffing been adequate in the past few years? Anyway hope it works out, I would love to only fly the 63 hrs required.

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oh.

yeah.

Apparently, the growth at SkyWest is over barring any news on the Midwest side. If that is the case, then there is a slight chance we might be staffed well enough to allow SkedPlus to do some good by September 2008 (ha).