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08-10-2015 | 08:18 PM
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From: Guppy Gear Slinger
In your Skywest career, you are more likely to encounter an actual griffin at FL390 (er...make that FL350 for us RJ chaps) than you are to actually ever be able to 'drop' a trip.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's managed to actually drop a trip in the past few years. (Management pilots don't count.)
08-10-2015 | 10:51 PM
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What are these 'dropped trips' you speak of? I believe they are about as elusive and rare as the mystical griffin (half-eagle, half-lion) that had medieval storytellers so enthralled.
In your Skywest career, you are more likely to encounter an actual griffin at FL390 (er...make that FL350 for us RJ chaps) than you are to actually ever be able to 'drop' a trip.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's managed to actually drop a trip in the past few years. (Management pilots don't count.)
In your Skywest career, you are more likely to encounter an actual griffin at FL390 (er...make that FL350 for us RJ chaps) than you are to actually ever be able to 'drop' a trip.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's managed to actually drop a trip in the past few years. (Management pilots don't count.)
FWIW I've been able to drops trips plenty in the past. There have been a lot of times recently where we've been fat on pilots and drops have been possible. There was the whole period 2008-2010 where you could drop and they were asking for voluntary leave. There was also a short period in fall and winter of 2012 where I could drop a lot of trips.
08-10-2015 | 10:54 PM
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From: Another RJ FO
08-10-2015 | 11:10 PM
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Can a new hire get IAH base? What equipment is based there?
08-11-2015 | 12:00 AM
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From: Another RJ FO
New hires can get pretty much any base within a few months. IAH is all 700s.
With how short we are there's not a lot of difference for how senior a base is to just transfer to anymore. You can get anywhere pretty quick. There's a pretty big difference on where you'll hold a line the quickest as a new hire though.
With how short we are there's not a lot of difference for how senior a base is to just transfer to anymore. You can get anywhere pretty quick. There's a pretty big difference on where you'll hold a line the quickest as a new hire though.
08-11-2015 | 08:15 AM
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What are these 'dropped trips' you speak of? I believe they are about as elusive and rare as the mystical griffin (half-eagle, half-lion) that had medieval storytellers so enthralled.
In your Skywest career, you are more likely to encounter an actual griffin at FL390 (er...make that FL350 for us RJ chaps) than you are to actually ever be able to 'drop' a trip.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's managed to actually drop a trip in the past few years. (Management pilots don't count.)
In your Skywest career, you are more likely to encounter an actual griffin at FL390 (er...make that FL350 for us RJ chaps) than you are to actually ever be able to 'drop' a trip.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who's managed to actually drop a trip in the past few years. (Management pilots don't count.)
Reserve levels seem to be up across the board. Let's see what that does for PBS and our ability to do anything with our trips. I still don't think the reserve levels are high enough to meet minimum daily.
08-11-2015 | 08:37 AM
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08-11-2015 | 12:38 PM
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I haven't been able to drop a trip to reserves for almost 2 years now. And I have only had one or two trips picked up in that same time frame by other pilots. When you are in the top 50% and getting awarded 95 hours per month, I am losing trips that my seniority should be able to hold to junior pilots due to "replaced due to line constraints"
Reserve levels seem to be up across the board. Let's see what that does for PBS and our ability to do anything with our trips. I still don't think the reserve levels are high enough to meet minimum daily.
Reserve levels seem to be up across the board. Let's see what that does for PBS and our ability to do anything with our trips. I still don't think the reserve levels are high enough to meet minimum daily.
08-11-2015 | 12:55 PM
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Any word on EFB's? iPad, surface, time frame?
08-11-2015 | 01:02 PM
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Down from 2 last month. And amazingly enough there are two pilots with transfer requests in to PDX from bases that would be able to give up a pilot each.
Things like this are what helps drive my belief that our QOL is the last thing anyone cares about.
Things like this are what helps drive my belief that our QOL is the last thing anyone cares about.
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