I've got a weird feeling there will be random wave of sickness in September at 9L. If only it wasn't induced by the company.

+1

Exactly!

+2 ..........i seem a little *cough cough* sick

The company is abiding by the contract. What's the question again?

12 Days off is better than every reservist at the company. I am not going to disagree that it is a horrible deal but we voted for the contract. We should of, at a bare minimum, set the min days off at 12 days for everybody and set min credit at 4.25 hours per day (thereby increasing efficiency and days off). They know we commute and they know that 11 days off commuting is really like 6 or 7 days off but do they care? With PBS the bottom 50% will see a drastic decrease in QOL, there will be a lot more 11 day off lines, especially for the bottom line holders. PBS is all about the senior bidding max days off and picking up open time for time and a half. The only thing that might make things better is when the Union gets involved with building pairings. However that will again probably only improve the lines for the top half of every seat and category.

I usually don't rant on here...but...I must ask sitting Saab right seat in a junior domicile, how long have you been at Colgan?

You can have your quality of life back, give us that (on average 37% pay raise you got), not to mention the better work rules, and the massive gain you got in SLI...unless you were hired after Jul 1, 2011...go back to the way it was at 9L, tell me how it will work out for you...

You are in for a treat...when PBS comes, your quality of life will go furthur down the drain (if your not sitting top 15% in your seat in domicile), guys will prob end up pushing you down the list, and you'll be sitting reserve longer if you havent already. But you'll still have that pay and work rules, and everything else you got out of this merger, which could have been alot worse. There are guys at Pinnacle and Mesaba that have been sitting reserve for 4 years + (me being one of them), some previously sat reserve for 7+, so you wont get any sympathy out of me or them....any complaint from a QOL standpoint, well your in for a treat, my friend.

While I understand your not happy with your predicament, no one is on the bottom of the list, and i'de say alot more guys have it worse than you...That change your talking about is coming...it's called displacements and PBS...those arent very popular things these days, so hope for the best/plan for the worst...you still have a job dont you? Becoming Mesaba/Pinnacle was the best thing that could have happened to you (increase in staffing, better safety, better pay, better work rules, more aircraft), while you may be too complacent to realize how much better things are, you will in time.

Ah yes. Another inept individual who doesn't have a clue. The Colgan name is going away for a reason. Mesaba's management is at Colgan...for a reason. 'Nough said. Tell me how it is in a year.

I think that individual means only in reference to schedules. Everything else is run better without a doubt.

You're right, I should shut up and be happy with any decline in the quality of our schedules because I haven't been with this company as long as you have, and I didn't spend as long on reserve as you. I mean really, who wants to continue to to be home every night, with half the month off?

Please don't act like you know me, or the situation I am in, or assume that I do not realize the gains we have enjoyed as group. We benefited in ways we couldn't have hoped to without the merger and I'm tired of the holier than thou attitude some pilots on this board have. Yes, generally speaking we're better off, even someone as "inept" as I am recognizes that. As much as pay, a contract or the SLI impact my life, my schedule probably impacts my quality of life more than any other aspect of this whole merger and integration. Therefore when it is impacted like this, I reserve the right to be unhappy and do what pilots do best - complain. That being said, I lost a ton of seniority, relatively speaking and my pay raise wasn't even in the same zip code as the figure you gave. And I'm grateful for what I got out of it, because every little bit helps. That being said, I've elected to remain in my current seat and base because I live 15min from the employee lot, bid in the top 10, and enjoyed a quality of life that was as good as my current situation will allow.

I have not said a word about the fallout from the JCBA, or the SLI because I know that in general, we're all better off for it. I have seen a lot of whining and complaining and mud-slinging from people at all 3 companies over things they cannot change. Within an hour of one another, two different people come on here, make assumptions and proceed to assume they know something about me, talk down to, and insult me based on a post I made in a thread about schedules that do not affect either of them, at least based on the kind of aircraft they have posted in their profiles. Really guys?


And yes, I realize the irony of my making an assumption when I, only a few lines before, called someone out of assuming something about me.

I've been at Mesaba for 4 years, got put under every Pinnacle pilot hired before July 1st. Don't tell me I don't understand the situation. There are a lot of people that are going to suffer a lot worse than you and I. Schedules suck, yea I know. I commute and I go back to reserve next month and unless I change bases, that's how it's going to be for a long time to come. Your not the only one.