Whipsaw? The majors must be fools! Haven't they heard? A shortage of pilots is right around the corner!

 

Thanks for posting the rates johnso and Jetblast.

Are you saying the arbitrator will come up with an "under-ride" so that ERJ pilots would get paid a lower rate when flying a larger aircraft?

 

Some of us aren't probably gonna sit around and wait for the "Race to the Bottom" to cross the finish line. IMHO when things get too out of whack they tend to correct in one way or another. And since most pilots tend to be pro-active rather than reactive....*skips to end*

....long story short I wrote my Senator today. Told him the industry needs reform. In hind sight it was probably a funny sounding letter. It sounded like "FAA....revolving door management...race to bottom...better work rules in China...going overseas...."

Still, beats having another mid-day crash pad pity party, although those are ok with RUM.

12 HOURS OR MORE!!!!

 

You are saying it was disingenuous to ask Smart Pref to reprogram so that it could handle CDO's? What about providing vacation conflicts? What about providing an award analysis to ensure seniority was respected?

Smart Pref has not been fully proven - the pool of pilots and pairings your are currently running could be done by a any competent computer user and an excel spread sheet. Ramp it up to parallel a full bid for one of your bases and then we can see if it actually works.

The ASA MEC is backing a proven system that receives very favorable reviews from the pilot groups who use it. What you are asking them to do is take a concession and they are unwilling.

So, if you keep shouting out a lie eventually it will come true?


One party publicly mudslinging is reasonable?

Again, this could have been resolved a year ago but there were so many sticking points where your MEC took extra time to protect your interests. Now you are crying foul when the ASA MEC is protecting the interest of their pilot group. A bit hypocritical?

 

There is a huge difference between protecting interests and giving a straight ultimatum. That is downright unproffesional and childish and if you cant see that I truly do not know what to tell you.

 

FlightLine PBS doesn't work for the L-XJT pilots because it honors seniority. The ERJ side knows they will get the short end of the stick in the seniority list integration so they are looking for any system that will socialize.

 

The ASA MEC does not agree they have issued an ultimatum. As it stands, the ASA MEC will not drop Flightline for Smartpref. As much potential as I see in Smartpref, it is still unproven and until full base bid runs are accomplished, it is not reasonable to expect the ASA MEC to back Smartpref.

The company is playing this for all it's worth to encourage whipsaw between the groups. I am honestly more concerned with their actions than continuing to promote discord between our pilot groups.

 

That was unhelpful.

 

Then I say GREAT! Lets do a test run with work rules in place for all schedules. If we cant get it to work case closed. Now we just have to get your MEC to agree to that! They have been unwilling to date.

 

It's even easier than that - expand the XJT test run to all line holders in a base and prove that it works. It's already in use, so it should be quick and easy to implement If the XJT MEC can prove that it works for an entire base of line bidders, I'll lead the educational campaign on the ASA side. I'd personally give up vacation low outright to do away with the multiple bid sheets and to know my schedule a full week earlier. But prove the program works first in a full scale real world environment!

BTW, the ASA MEC was willing to do parallel test runs but the company is unwilling to fund it, and Smart pref won't do it for free because the modifications to fit our work rules would have been too extensive. If this is something the XJT MEC actually wants, the burden falls on them to make it work then sell it.