Bases and Reserve
10-11-2022 | 08:37 PM
#321
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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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10-11-2022 | 11:14 PM
#322
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10-12-2022 | 12:41 AM
#323
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From: ERJ 170
10-12-2022 | 12:44 AM
#324
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We’ll we did pick up a bunch of MIA flying. Even a MIA-BVT. Even had the union post re:Havana pairings for NOV that had to be pulled temporarily were non the less, pairings so if anything I’d say MIA. I stopped listening to base rumors a long time ago. RPA needs to focus on getting upgrades happening for the bases we DO have.
We do have some MIA flying next month. Seasonal routes. I'm sure mostly flown by IND crews for their long MIA and EYW overnight. None of the routes are EOW. I'd love the MIA base back but I just don't see it. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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10-12-2022 | 01:17 AM
#325
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You keep coming back to CA side of things. I never claimed for any of what I said to be applicable to the CA side. I mention all of that to NHs who are looking at gathering information to decide is RPA is for them.
Maybe this is why there is a disconnect?
Maybe this is why there is a disconnect?
10-12-2022 | 03:24 PM
#327
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Does anybody know of a list of the bases and the newest hires at each base? EDV has one east to find on their website, would make things easy of RPA had one too. If not, does anybody know how far out reserves are at BOS?
10-12-2022 | 04:46 PM
#330
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Bos is not somewhere you wanna be. Shrinking base and that most junior fo got a single spot out of training because no one wants to go there. For oct there were 15 lines out of that base. Huge drop off in flying compared to months past. More than any other base.
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