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If you have an email saved, I'd send it in writing -email- and it should be taken care of...good luck!

 

could somone share the key points of the new TA? (Pay, rest, commuting etc)

I have a class date with Mesaba on the 14th of March.

Thanks!

 

I'd like to see a quote of the pairing construction language in the contract, that is if you guys were able to capture that.

 

Here's some highlights:


C. Scheduling Committees

1. PBS Committee

The PBS Committee will be comprised of members from both the Association and the Company. Each party will identify no more than two (2) representatives to serve on the PBS Committee. The PBS Committee will be responsible for resolving conflicts between the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement and the operation of PBS. Disputes between the Association and the Company not first resolved in the PBS Committee will be resolved in accordance with Section 21.

2. Scheduling Committee

a. The Association will establish a Scheduling Committee.

b. The Association will select the Pilots to serve on its Scheduling Committee.

c. Each month, each Airline shall release two (2) Scheduling Committee Pilots, plus an additional Scheduling Committee Pilot for each ten (10) positions, or portion thereof starting with the twenty-first (21st) position, for the purposes listed below.

i. To construct pairings in concert with the Company's planning department in accordance with the company's specified parameters. The Company shall have the final approval over the constructed pairings.

ii. To attend the pairing solution meeting.

iii. To run the line awards in concert with the Company's planning department.

iv. Pilots on the Scheduling Committee will be compensated by the Company at the greater of 5.0 credit hours for each day or for trips lost due to participation on the Committee under this section.

v. In order to minimize the impact of uncovered flying, the Association will provide the Company's planning department, prior to the close of the Bid Period, with the names of the Scheduling Committee members who will participate in the pairing and line construction process as outlined in this subsection, as well as the dates on which the Scheduling Committee members will be performing such functions.

1. Trip Construction

a. Nights Away From Base

Trips will not exceed three (3) consecutive nights away from Domicile, unless the Scheduling Committee Chairman and the Company agree on the construction of specific trips that include four (4) consecutive nights away from Domicile.

b. The Company will attempt to maximize the average ‘Block per duty' and/or other similar measures of utilization to the extent possible, giving consideration to operational issues and overall costs.

c. The Company will build ‘carry-out trips' that operate into the month following the Bid Period

i. Carry-out trips will follow similar patterns and numbers as any other period of the month, except where changed by holiday and/or marketing changes.

ii. The Block hours scheduled in the carry out trips should decrease from the first to the third day of the month. The number of ‘crew reports' on the first three days of a Bid Period should be no greater than the number of crew reports on other days of the Bid Period.

iii. Once a Pilot is scheduled for a carry-out trip it will become part of his schedule, unless modified due to marketing changes. If a marketing change after the trip is awarded makes it necessary to modify or change the trip before the opening of Monthly Bidding, it will be modified in accordance with paragraph H.3. The Pilot will receive Pay Credit in accordance with Section 3.N. Should the last day or days of the carry-out trip be removed by the Company before the opening of Monthly Bidding, the original Pay Credit of the carry-out day(s) will not apply for any day(s) removed.

2. Line Construction

a. Open Time

i. Prior to Bidding

A. Specific trips may be withheld from bidding for such purposes as special certification flights, special qualification flights, management and instructor flying, etc., as verified by the Scheduling Committee. The Company will meet and discuss with the Scheduling Committee the specific trips withheld for management and instructor flying.

B. Specific trips withheld pursuant to Section E.2.a.i.a. shall

not exceed three percent (3%) of the total scheduled Block hours. All other Scheduled Flying assignments and trips will be made available for bidding and line construction.

C. The Scheduling Committee will publish to the Pilot group the trips that are being withheld from the bidding process.

D. Trips withheld pursuant to Section E.2.a.i.a. shall be considered Open Time but presently unavailable to Pilots.

E. If a specific trip withheld from bidding pursuant to Section E.2.a.i.a. has not been assigned by five (5) days prior to its scheduled report time, such trip shall be placed in Open Time.

F. The Scheduling Committee will be permitted to review all current unassigned trips upon request.

 

How do you have a Class Date at Mesaba??? We still have furoughes on the street. Please elaborate...

 

Ok, officially its with Colgan but the colgan name will eventually be phased out.

Didnt mean to step on peoples toes here.

 

It's kinda weird how things are working now. Colgan applicants are actually interviewing in Eagan, MN (Mesaba HQ).

 

I think now it's just an "A." But does anyone know if it is too late to vote?

 

Sorry, as a lowly outsider, with the vote being completed, what left is there to do? Does it take effect immediately or does it have more hoops and hurdles to go through?

What's going to happen to the 159 (according to this site) furloughed Mesaba pilots? Since Colgan and Pinnacle are hiring, will those 159 be called back?