Clarification

1. You can drop a 4 day for a 3 day if it's not a "red arrow" day. Most days this year have been red arrow days. There are not many 3, 2 or 1 day trips. You can drop 3 days of your schedule that way. Prior to our current contract, you couldn't even do that.

2. If you can find someone to pick up your trip, you can get rid of it. Good luck finding someone who will work a 4 day over Christmas, or who can pick up your trip as they are working 4 days every week themselves.

But you can not go online and drop a trip outright without swapping or finding someone to pick it up. If you guys can, we definitely need to hang on to that!

 

AMEN to that!

 

Easy on us now, Pinnacle has 9hrs of ready reserve, 0 hrs of pay. Simply the Best!

 

This is the kind of stuff that really scares me. All many of us have been doing for the past few years is 1 day trips, if I get a schedule of mixed 1 and 2 day trips that is a horrible month. You're saying I may have to start working all 4 days again, with maybe a 3 day if I'm lucky? I may want to start looking for another job more agressively. There's no way I'm leaving my family for 3 nights every week again. This job simply isn't worth that.

 

Unfortunately, four days breed like rabbits at ASA.

 

Whoaaa don't get too worked up yet. The company is required to provide lines with 1, 2, 3, 4, and CDO trips; 4 days are the most frequently occurin lines. If you can hold daylines at XJT, I'm betting you'll continue to hold them at the combined company. Also, the PBS LOA states that 4 day trips can only be 60% of the pairings. You'll be ok on that front.

One of my biggest concerns is getting rid of that ridiculous formula for adjusting a pilot's guarantee if he/she voluntarily drops below 75 hours. That is an unacceptable pitfall in our current contract. We need to be paid for what we freaking work!

 

Uh, I'm not on reserve and not in favor of it "buddy". Oh, and nice attitude. You guys really are gems.

PS, I probably didn't get hired after you either. I definitely won't be behind you after the merger, "dude". You might also want to invest in spell check or maybe even an English as a second language class, "buddy". See you in the parking lot.

 

I suppose I should clarify this. Yes, you can technically call in as many times as you want....as long as you provide a doctor's note. If you don't, what I previously stated remains true. You can also call in sick for consecutive trips and it will only count as one sick call as well.

 

Reserve rules are definitely a major concern. Our MEC has no desire to improve the reserve rules. Guess what? None of them are on reserve and most probably spent very little time on reserve as new-hires or upgrades. They don't understand that reserve life can be long and hard at regionals now, and reserve rules need mega-enhancements. We line holders have it great for the most part, now its time for the reserves to get some cake, too..."Pay it forward," as you say. This old mentality of "reserve is such a small part of your career that we don't want to focus on reserve rules because it detracts from the line holder benefits" doesn't fly anymore.

However, seniority is seniority. Reserve rules need changing, but forcing a line holding pilot to fly a reserve schedule is unacceptable. I hope that the entire pilot group answers that question with a resounding "NO." We need to FIX THE PROBLEM (reserve rules) rather than placing a band-aid (line holders forced to fly reserve) on the wound.

 

How is it that there are so many awesome trips left over in open time? At SKW all of the great trips have already been bid by senior crewmembers and so the leftovers are usually low paying weekend trips.