Bases and Reserve
10-05-2022 | 03:33 AM
#291
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Dca is at least 7-8 months to obtain. I’ve been bidding for it since I got here and still nothing. Lowest seniority number there was an April hire. If your goal is to stay at rpa you can have a great qol. You don’t have to worry about getting flight time and moving on. If you want to make it to a legacy or another major you’re looking at years because most new hire fos are flying less than 10 hrs a month. Don’t know where you live but commuting to sit on your ass for 5 days is pretty ****. New contract is going to change things for a lot of people but it isn’t really improving on a whole lot it’s simply matching the current industry standard. As far as the lack of captains and flying time maybe the new contract will help maybe it won’t. Either way it’s going to take a year or more to recover the lost ca if it can stop the bleed
10-05-2022 | 03:36 AM
#292
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Outstation bases the philosophy is to keep the crews out in the system as long as possible and available for reassignment. They get mostly 4 and 5 day trips with early report times on Day 1 and late finishes on the last day. You will find commuting to those outstations to be miserable.
LGA is severely short staffed and as an example this month of out 500+ trips available there were only 9 total trips available that were at least 3 days commutable on both ends. That's with a 1030am or later report on Day 1 and a release time of 830pm or earlier on the last day. There aren't a ton of places that are able to commute that early into / that late out of LGA I'm just luckier than most. Even then I still lost 3 days off this month to the lack of commutability. Other bases seem to have more commutable multi day trips like EWR and DCA. BOS has very poor commutability. PHL is such a tiny and senior base that it's hard too. ORD is also small and senior.
Also take everything SoFlo said with a grain of salt. FOs being able to drop reserve is an anomaly due to the current staffing. On the CA side they are unable to drop reserve or drop any trip. There's zero scheduling flexibility. If he's right and the new TA which is still below our peers in compensation passes and it fixes the staffing imbalance then FOs will lose their current ability to drop reserve.
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LGA is severely short staffed and as an example this month of out 500+ trips available there were only 9 total trips available that were at least 3 days commutable on both ends. That's with a 1030am or later report on Day 1 and a release time of 830pm or earlier on the last day. There aren't a ton of places that are able to commute that early into / that late out of LGA I'm just luckier than most. Even then I still lost 3 days off this month to the lack of commutability. Other bases seem to have more commutable multi day trips like EWR and DCA. BOS has very poor commutability. PHL is such a tiny and senior base that it's hard too. ORD is also small and senior.
Also take everything SoFlo said with a grain of salt. FOs being able to drop reserve is an anomaly due to the current staffing. On the CA side they are unable to drop reserve or drop any trip. There's zero scheduling flexibility. If he's right and the new TA which is still below our peers in compensation passes and it fixes the staffing imbalance then FOs will lose their current ability to drop reserve.
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10-05-2022 | 03:42 AM
#293
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Outstation bases the philosophy is to keep the crews out in the system as long as possible and available for reassignment. They get mostly 4 and 5 day trips with early report times on Day 1 and late finishes on the last day. You will find commuting to those outstations to be miserable.
LGA is severely short staffed and as an example this month of out 500+ trips available there were only 9 total trips available that were at least 3 days commutable on both ends. That's with a 1030am or later report on Day 1 and a release time of 830pm or earlier on the last day. There aren't a ton of places that are able to commute that early into / that late out of LGA I'm just luckier than most. Even then I still lost 3 days off this month to the lack of commutability. Other bases seem to have more commutable multi day trips like EWR and DCA. BOS has very poor commutability. PHL is such a tiny and senior base that it's hard too. ORD is also small and senior.
Also take everything SoFlo said with a grain of salt. FOs being able to drop reserve is an anomaly due to the current staffing. On the CA side they are unable to drop reserve or drop any trip. There's zero scheduling flexibility. If he's right and the new TA which is still below our peers in compensation passes and it fixes the staffing imbalance then FOs will lose their current ability to drop reserve.
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LGA is severely short staffed and as an example this month of out 500+ trips available there were only 9 total trips available that were at least 3 days commutable on both ends. That's with a 1030am or later report on Day 1 and a release time of 830pm or earlier on the last day. There aren't a ton of places that are able to commute that early into / that late out of LGA I'm just luckier than most. Even then I still lost 3 days off this month to the lack of commutability. Other bases seem to have more commutable multi day trips like EWR and DCA. BOS has very poor commutability. PHL is such a tiny and senior base that it's hard too. ORD is also small and senior.
Also take everything SoFlo said with a grain of salt. FOs being able to drop reserve is an anomaly due to the current staffing. On the CA side they are unable to drop reserve or drop any trip. There's zero scheduling flexibility. If he's right and the new TA which is still below our peers in compensation passes and it fixes the staffing imbalance then FOs will lose their current ability to drop reserve.
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10-05-2022 | 05:55 AM
#294
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I absolutely love the flexibility I have here at RPA. Not always perfect, but I get 98% of the day I want off (I’m one of the more senior of the junior folks… i.e. I can hold whatever reserve days I want, but not a line). That said, I always drop my reserve days and pick up trips. Have to be willing to work out of base to build yourself a line successfully..
All that aside, RPA is amazing and has the best work rules out there. I definitely don’t regret coming to RPA and if I had to do it again, I’d try to get here sooner!
All that aside, RPA is amazing and has the best work rules out there. I definitely don’t regret coming to RPA and if I had to do it again, I’d try to get here sooner!
LGA is severely short staffed and as an example this month of out 500+ trips available there were only 9 total trips available that were at least 3 days commutable on both ends. That's with a 1030am or later report on Day 1 and a release time of 830pm or earlier on the last day.
Not sure how short staffed a base is if it has 60+ reserve lines. There are 30 reservists available there today according to FLICA. I certainly agree though, there aren't a lot of 1 and 2 day trips in LGA. Having said that, understandably most commuters want longer trips to limit the commutes. Everyone is different. Folks I work with at EWR bid back to backs to limit commutes.
I've successfully dropped and swapped for 4+ years now. You can't get rid of everything you might want to, but, there's a lot of flexibility.
Or...get in now, then all that happens and you're a lot more senior and have more flexibility !
10-05-2022 | 06:42 AM
#295
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I'm kind of a little less "enthusiastically" in this same camp. From what I've gotten from speaking to regional colleagues in jump seats etc., we have it very good.
Commuting sucks, that is all.
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Not sure how short staffed a base is if it has 60+ reserve lines. There are 30 reservists available there today according to FLICA. I certainly agree though, there aren't a lot of 1 and 2 day trips in LGA. Having said that, understandably most commuters want longer trips to limit the commutes. Everyone is different. Folks I work with at EWR bid back to backs to limit commutes.
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I've successfully dropped and swapped for 4+ years now. You can't get rid of everything you might want to, but, there's a lot of flexibility.
Or...get in now, then all that happens and you're a lot more senior and have more flexibility !
Commuting sucks, that is all.
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Not sure how short staffed a base is if it has 60+ reserve lines. There are 30 reservists available there today according to FLICA. I certainly agree though, there aren't a lot of 1 and 2 day trips in LGA. Having said that, understandably most commuters want longer trips to limit the commutes. Everyone is different. Folks I work with at EWR bid back to backs to limit commutes.
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I've successfully dropped and swapped for 4+ years now. You can't get rid of everything you might want to, but, there's a lot of flexibility.
Or...get in now, then all that happens and you're a lot more senior and have more flexibility !
LGA is super short staffed on the CA side. As a result they took all the LGA flying and spread it out to the other bases where CA staffing wasn't as short. The trips in LGA went from good (high credit 3-4-5 days commutable) to awful (1 day and 2 days low credit not commutale). I am not exaggerating for October out of 500+ pairings only 9 met the definition of multi day commutable. The FOs suffer too. Just ask how many of them are enjoying their trips at the moment. I don't understand how you can say the trips in LGA are good for commuters when they are not.
FOs sitting reserve is a systemwide issue as we have way more FOs than we have CAs. I don't see how this new TA entices someone to risk a failure when they are getting hired by LCC ULCC and mainline straight from the right seat. I guess we will see in the coming months since this TA is being sold by the Eboard so hard and will probably pass due to the union not even providing an economic comparison of the TA against our peers. People are voting blind.
I don't deny that our work rules in the regional industry are generally good but others have caught up and have better trip duty rigs not to mention higher pay even with our new TA.
You've successfully dropped trips and/or reserve as a CA the past 4+ years? That's unheard of besides the COVID flying stoppage. If you're talking about swapping trips with open time or trip trading that is not the same thing at all and kind of dishonest to paint the picture that we have scheduling flexibility. Other airlines allow Flica to function as it should. Trips are dropped automatically without input from scheduling.
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10-05-2022 | 06:47 AM
#296
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Thanks for the info! That’s good to know. I’m actually more interested in shorter trips… My plan is to move to wherever I will be based - I just don’t want to go to the NYC area. Would you say Republic is good for that? Are there a lot of trips that are 1, 2, or 3 days long? They don’t need to be commutable
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10-05-2022 | 06:48 AM
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10-05-2022 | 07:26 AM
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10-05-2022 | 08:01 AM
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