That's why you're not flying. Don't make too big a thing about it. Its better than being furloughed.

 

We were probably overstaffed that much a couple months ago, but, at least in PHL, it seems as it is getting back to normal staffing. I have worked EVERY RSV day this month (cept today) and they told me yesterday that they were really really short again. Who knows what the powers that be up in toontown have going on, I think the old saying that "no news is good news" applies. In the history of this airline, every thing that has happened has not even been rumored, SO that being said, we will see what the future brings....

 

Yeah it's definitely not in there. Maybe he was thinking the current contract? The "old" contract was set to expire in 2006 I believe.

 

A CA I flew with said that 2nd year pay would be in the ball park of $42 as well (using a similar formula as mentioned previously). She had a copy of the old contract. Anyways, other than that I haven't even seen the contract but if I talk/fly with her again soon I will ask her because she was all over it!

 

So everyone is complaining of being on reserve for a year or so, huh? I am at CMR and I have been on reserve for 5 out of the 7 1/2 years I've been here. I did a year as an FO and now I have done 4 years as a captain with no end in sight. I am pretty burnt out but I have managed to handle it by using the thought that while I am on a reserve day, I am the companies to abuse. People who think they are going to get to go home at the end of a trip while on reserve are just kidding themselves.

J

 

Check your email - JE, the ORF rep, sent out an ALPA blastmail.

 

Pinnacle
After OE I sat the first month in DTW on reserve. Got a hard line the following month. Moved to MSP and sat reserve for one month. I should have a hard or build up line next month.

 

Well, I have been on RSV for over a year now...but it's by choice. Many of our lineholders have 75 - 80 hour lines and I get more nights at home with the wife than about 60 - 70% of the line holders. several bids back I got over 20 nights at home . There will be a time in the future that you will wish you could be at home more and still getting paid. How many jobs can you just chill while getting paid. For te reserve's that want it, you can get called EVERY day to work. I personally want nothing of that. I always bid to call me last and they still worked me 80 hours last bid. I think there was a lot of vacations over the holidays. Next week they already have me scheduled for 33 hours in 4 days + DH pay. That's over $1000 for 4 - 5 days work..not too bad.
At our comapny the FO's are always very junior while the CA's tend to be more senior. About 30% of our RSV CA's could bid CRJ CA over at Mesa and would double pay easy but they choose to bid RSV on the 1900. That kinda makes you wonder doesn't it . Actually they are probably scared to work under Mesa and would rather stay Air Midwest. Our most senior RSV CA has been here for over 20 years.

 

i was on reserve at pinnacle for 6 months and flew 90 hours every month. What a difference in companies

 

So here's the story of screw scheduling this morning already...
(names are made up)
4:15am- Jon gets called and asked to break contract and show up in 1 hour for a DH to DCA, flight to MKE, DH to PHL, DH To ORF.
4:50am- Jon calls back says he doesn't want to break contract and asks if a ready reserve can cover it to which scheduling replies..."he's already been called out"
4:51am- Jon calls the ready reserve FO only to see if he indeed was called out... the answer was no.
5:25am- Jon goes to airport for DH to find out it has been cancelled
7:01am- I get called out for a Repo and DH back
7:45am- Jon decides to leave airport and come back to the crashpad
8:00am- Jon is walking in the door in uniform as I am getting ready to walk out and we both wonder where the logic in crew scheduling really is. To us it made more sense to use the guy at the airport in uniform rather than calling out someone else...

The real question is... why do they flat out lie to us?