Reserve Time
#4
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Joined APC: Jun 2016
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What you keep reading about is likely in reference to the new stunt the company has started pulling which is assigning trips to people outside of their reserve period. So if you are scheduled 9 am- 9 pm reserve, ordinarily the earliest you would have to answer your phone would be 9 am, receive a 2 hour call out, and report at 11 am. Now that time means absolutely nothing. They have been giving 5 am report times to those guys and considering them “automatically notified”.
This is terrible for commuters who would ordinarily be able to commute in before 9 am but now have to come the night before, lose a day off and pay for a hotel.
#5
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Joined APC: Apr 2010
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I will admit I'm not on reserve, but from those I've talked with that have been on reserve for a while, it is really a living hell. And as another poster mentioned, it recently has gotten much worse. I know of a few people that are all out quitting SkyWest with out another job because of how bad the QOL is.
The brain donors at SAPA wrote a new reserve function that was supposed to improve reserve life, well it was so poorly written the company took immediate advantage of it. Basically a reserve day begins at midnight and goes until midnight of your last day. The company doesn't call you, now you have to check your schedule the day before and plan accordingly. It appears there is no turning back as the company loves it, even though they know what the pilot groups thinks of it. We are short of pilots and more pilots are leaving than we can hire, and we are supposed to have record hours through the summer.
I've been called each of the last few days I've had off. This place is having some hard times!
The brain donors at SAPA wrote a new reserve function that was supposed to improve reserve life, well it was so poorly written the company took immediate advantage of it. Basically a reserve day begins at midnight and goes until midnight of your last day. The company doesn't call you, now you have to check your schedule the day before and plan accordingly. It appears there is no turning back as the company loves it, even though they know what the pilot groups thinks of it. We are short of pilots and more pilots are leaving than we can hire, and we are supposed to have record hours through the summer.
I've been called each of the last few days I've had off. This place is having some hard times!
#7
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And I think there's no going back!
#8
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Joined APC: Aug 2017
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You might have been awarded your reserve availability period from 9am to 9pm, which before meant the earliest they could call was 9a for a 11a showtime. Now, they can have you show at 4am and you have to check the night before. Basically they have you for the entire 24 hour period of each day of reserve. Company loves it!
And I think there's no going back!
And I think there's no going back!
So how was it written to where this is allowed but nobody in your pilot group realized it?
#9
You might have been awarded your reserve availability period from 9am to 9pm, which before meant the earliest they could call was 9a for a 11a showtime. Now, they can have you show at 4am and you have to check the night before. Basically they have you for the entire 24 hour period of each day of reserve. Company loves it!
And I think there's no going back!
And I think there's no going back!
#10
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Joined APC: Oct 2015
Posts: 472
And unfortunately, there really seems to be no going back.
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