9E - Long Airport Sits...
 

So, there I was, with a 2:37 minute sit until my DH to overnight, on a generated pairing, when there was a flight 52 minutes after scheduled block in that would get me to the overnight sooner...

"legal", per our contract...:rolleyes:

What's with the "legal connection time" + 15 / 30? Someone enlighten me why we want a 2 hour meal break at the airport? Trying to one-up USW for dumb contractual provisions???

It's Mesaba's fault.

good thing you have industry leading rigs and 100% DH pay in the new contract!

Industry leading 11 days off too! And they now allow 4 day open time pick ups!!! So we can be a prostitute for one extra day a month . . .

2 hour meal break? The only meal break provision in 1 hour provided your duty day is more than 7 hours.

I'm all for the increase to 4 days. Its a very lucrative provision...If you know how to work it. :D

The Pinnacle FAs have a meal break provision in their contract. They have to get 90 minutes if the duty day is over a certain length (I think it's 9 hours). If they do not receive the break, they get extra pay. I would imagine that this will explain it since pilots and FAs have the same pairings at Pinnacle.

I laugh in your general direction OP....

2:37 get a load of this guy!

That's half of what we sit on airways pairings....

or....Jayray can bid max credit and fly his butt off on a 95 hour 12 day off line, while I bid 16-17 days off, get 75 hours originally, and pick up on 3 days off and still have 2 more days off than him, while flying 10-15 less hours than he does and crediting 110+ on days I want to work, not have to work.....:rolleyes: That makes you a streetwalking hooker and me a Bunny Rancher....

nobody has a gun to your head Jay.....

If you can swing that then you are in the select few. Good for you. You are senior, you have all the bidding power, all the days off you want, all the vacation days you want. Why shouldn't you get to work for 150% while forcing everyone else below you to work 11 days? That is the way the system is set up, why wouldn't you take advantage of it?

I will sell you an application that will tell you of new open time within 3 minutes of it being released, all I want is 5% of your premium pay per trip you pick up. I'm not joking either, get in now before all the junior people get in before you and steal your open time. I'm only allowing 10 people per seat in on this once of a lifetime opportunity. You'll never again miss an open time trip of a lifetime while someone junior to you picks up your $3,000 trip. PM for more details.

if you have a schedule like that call and get it changed.

"Go ask the gate agent"

Trust me, I did...

You don't have to be senior to have 15+ days off in DTW. I'm a 2/28/11 new hire and I have 18 days off next month. It's all about how you bid.

What the heck is your position?

Probably pilot

LMAO. Seniority matters, not how u you bid.

18 days off, yet you cant even fly a visual. Think you should be sporting 11 days off til you can fly the plane...Just my opinion.

Is anyone else sick of doing go arounds with noobs who think they hot ****? And been here 6 months?

This guy was never a noob. He was born with a 747 type rating.

Bet he logs transoceanic crossing on Microsoft Flight Sim too

Oldest 2/28/11 new hire: 1965 ; youngest: 1990.

Nope. I don't let it get that far. After giving suggestions when I see they are getting behind the A/C and can't recover, I say "My controls." They know when they F it up. We talk about it. They learn. It's why they pay us more to wear that extra stripe.

Enjoy your time off while you can because it's not going to last, Mr. Displacement is knocking at your door and he's angry.

We all have four stripes, some gold, some black :D

whats four stripes mean?

Ok guys. Number 1 I never said I was hot sh*t. All I said was right now you dont have to be real senior to get days off.

Yes I know I'm probably going to
be back on reserve by the time all of this is over.

How the hell do you know if I can fly a visual or not? Have I ever flown with you? Do you even know who I am?

How does someone senior bidding to work as little as possible, while you admit you bid max credit, force you into a 11 day off line? you do that to yourself. You sound like an entitlement kid who hates the seniority system unless it benefits you...
And when did anyone say that they were po'd because a JR guy "stole" their open time? What fantasy world are you coming from, seriously?:confused::rolleyes:

Smart post. Let everyone senior to you know how good things are.

I think by virtue of the fact that you claim to be a 2/28/11 hire which means you've probably been on the line at most 4-5 months, the odds of you being able to "walk the walk" are not in your favor and you probably still have a lot to learn. But maybe you are a true "Top Gun", that rare exception of a noob who, when dumped off by approach at 9000 feet on a weird angle to the downwind, can flawlessly execute a superb visual approach that would make Chuck Yeager himself weep in awe of your aviation skills.

You are a regional first officer. Therefore, by default, you cannot.

Yeah...because that fourth stripe makes you a visual approach god. I have never, in my 5.5 years in the right seat seen a CA mess up a visual one way or another. Riiiiggghhttt... :rolleyes:

In the interest of full disclosure, I've effed up whether I was PIC or SIC. I just have waaaaaay more SIC time :D

aren't you a 800-1000 hour metro FO?

Who do you work for Czech?

I have a lot of problems with this post. You have no idea of his background before becoming a new hire. You make a lot of assumptions and come off like an ass. Take your "I'm better than you" attitude somewhere else and give someone the benefit of the doubt.

I wholeheartedly agree. We've had furloughed ATA guys and former Fedex pilots who were newhires here as well. And even if this guy is new to the industry, I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt before just ripping into them out of some perceived superiority complex...