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Quote: Assuming you live in base and don’t have to commute in or out at beginning or end of trips 10 is a pretty solid bet. Maybe 9 if you get some really nice credit trips. Worst case scenario probably 12 with bad credit trips. But that’s just my experience and it mayyyyy be dependent on the base.
I was hoping you would say 8. If I bid reserve will I be abused or will that maximise my time home?
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Speaking of schedules, how much does a pilot get around the system from their crew base (specifically, ORD)? Do you get to see a lot of the cities, or do you find yourselves doing the same out and backs all day everyday? I know I'm being petty, but one of the things I'm looking for at my next airline is variety. TIA!
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Quote: I was hoping you would say 8. If I bid reserve will I be abused or will that maximise my time home?
Reserve would depend on staffing. When I was on reserve I was almost never used. People hired 3 months later might tell a very different story. With reserve you also run the risk of out of base reserve which is cool if you commute to reserve cuz it’s 24/7 per diem and a paid for hotel but not so great if you sit reserve at home and now you have a bunch of extra nights away from home. We also don’t have “call last” or “call first,” the call list is totally dependent on how many days of reserve you have left. Having said all that if you live in base you can bid day trips and that would cut down time away from home. I always forget those exist cuz my drive to work causes me to avoid them like the plague.
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Quote: Reserve would depend on staffing. When I was on reserve I was almost never used. People hired 3 months later might tell a very different story. With reserve you also run the risk of out of base reserve which is cool if you commute to reserve cuz it’s 24/7 per diem and a paid for hotel but not so great if you sit reserve at home and now you have a bunch of extra nights away from home. We also don’t have “call last” or “call first,” the call list is totally dependent on how many days of reserve you have left. Having said all that if you live in base you can bid day trips and that would cut down time away from home. I always forget those exist cuz my drive to work causes me to avoid them like the plague.
Is SAP at republic the same as PSA? You can trade your trips with what’s available and sort of make your own schedule?
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Quote: Speaking of schedules, how much does a pilot get around the system from their crew base (specifically, ORD)? Do you get to see a lot of the cities, or do you find yourselves doing the same out and backs all day everyday? I know I'm being petty, but one of the things I'm looking for at my next airline is variety. TIA!
In 2 years I’ve flown 263 routes to 73 different airports. EWR based doing UA flying. That’s why I’m EWR based rather than LGA. LGA is a lot of DL/AA shuttle type stuff. UA at EWR is a lot more variety. I think the outstations may have variety as well.
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Our SAP is far more restrictive than PSA’s. I’ve used it to add stuff and swap 3 days for 4 days over the same general block of days. But, dropping seems a bit tougher.
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Quote: Is SAP at republic the same as PSA? You can trade your trips with what’s available and sort of make your own schedule?
Our SAP is much less effective than PSA's because it is restricted based on the reserve coverage available where theirs is not. Once the reserve coverage for a particular day gets low enough the system will not allow any more drops for that day. The result is that all the drops that can happen have already happened by the end of seniority-based SAP 1 and the junior guys don't get squat in the first-come-first-served base SAP 2 because no trip drop/swaps are able to be approved.

We've only had it for two months so the above is very preliminary info.
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Quote: Our SAP is much less effective than PSA's because it is restricted based on the reserve coverage available where theirs is not. Once the reserve coverage for a particular day gets low enough the system will not allow any more drops for that day. The result is that all the drops that can happen have already happened by the end of seniority-based SAP 1 and the junior guys don't get squat in the first-come-first-served base SAP 2 because no trip drop/swaps are able to be approved.

We've only had it for two months so the above is very preliminary info.
Why did they bring SAP? Was it to improve QOL or was it to benefit the company in some way??
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Quote: Why did they bring SAP? Was it to improve QOL or was it to benefit the company in some way??
The intent of SAP is/was to improve QOL, particularly for junior pilots. Our SAP thus far is a textbook example of how SAP can fail to do that based on how it is implemented and what restrictions are placed on it.
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Quote: Our SAP is much less effective than PSA's because it is restricted based on the reserve coverage available where theirs is not. Once the reserve coverage for a particular day gets low enough the system will not allow any more drops for that day. The result is that all the drops that can happen have already happened by the end of seniority-based SAP 1 and the junior guys don't get squat in the first-come-first-served base SAP 2 because no trip drop/swaps are able to be approved.

We've only had it for two months so the above is very preliminary info.
Our SAP is also much less effective than PSA because if you know how to bid properly, you can likely get what you want if you are senior enough to hold what you are asking for. In both situations, if you’re trying to fly the least possible per month, it requires a certain level of seniority - PSA, several months to hold a round 1 line, and several more not at a non-outstation base, and same with republic to be senior enough to actually get close to min award (75h).

If you spend enough time learning PBS and FLICA, that combined with our trip efficiency is essentially the same as PSA SAP. 20 off, 76 credit, 15 months on property. All commutable.
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