You know this PBS rally is picking up steam with senior guys who personally know the big wigs. They used to be mostly apathetic to the plight of those on the bottom 2/3rds. Now 117 has been timing out pilots (along with company picking up more work) that even they are being affected.
a few casual calls from them goes further than what the collective voice of all those hired in the last four years. (Half the seniority list)
Exhibit A: the water bottle issue.

 

Flew with one of the two West Coast CPs last night (MH) and brought up the PBS issue. He said it was the first he'd heard of it :-0

Nobody's listening in management, or if they are listening, they don't care.

 

CP have very little knowledge about PBS. They don't bid... They are the last person you should ask PBS questions...

 

Doesn't surprise me. SAPA doesn't monitor the forums because there is "too much negativity" and it's not an official channel for information. They ask you to file PIC's for anything then close them because no policy was broken.

A couple years ago, probably right before 117 when we could actually drop stuff in Sked + and we had some reserves, I tried to drop a trip or some legs right at 8:00 on the 24th. Showed reserve levels were high enough (I know remember those days??) but it was still denied. Called CS and they told me as many excuses as it took to get me off the phone. Filled out a PIC because I actually took the time to email SAPA (back when I was naïve enough to think they could help me) and that is what my SAPA rep said I should do. It was closed without even a phone call back to me. When I checked the status online, it said something like CS followed the policy so I shouldn't have filed a PIC.

My point is that so many of us are sick of the run around and don't even bother anymore. Even if MH had heard about this, he wouldn't care to fix it. SAPA tells pilots to email SL and MT, but they are supposed to be our representatives. They should be able to tell MT and SL here is what the pilots are concerned with. Years ago I sent a letter to all of the BOD and SL was the only one to take the time to reply. He is a good guy, but nobody cares to fix the issues.

There were no problems with my bid for January because I have learned to bid defensively. If I need time off, I bid for locals or standups that I have no intention of flying, because I am sick of burning 20 hours to call in for a 4 day trip over days I need off. Now I can just call in for a min credit local and only burn 4 hours of user time. I have been beating this drum for years now, but if the company doesn't want to work with the pilots on solutions, it will cost them more in the long run.

 

I wasn't asking questions, I was pointing out that the vast majority of the pilot group is seriously P****d off about how PBS continues to remove awarded trips and replace them in the name of globalization...

 

Aw cheer up RedBird! I'll buy you a beer sometime and we can talk to each other like this:

http://youtu.be/zuQK6t2Esng

 

hard to break policies that do not exist (and that do not exist specifically for this reason!).

 

Yes the rates are cheaper outsourced, but the UA pilots will not allow 100 seaters at regionals. Talked to too many of them to realize that. The only question UAL has to decide now is whether it will be EMB190s or CRJ1000s. Probably the 190s. That's why UA wants 15000 pilots on property ASAP.
Regionals won't go away but will shrink noticeably in a few years and management already knows that. UA and DL want the reliability back and they won't get it with struggling regionals. They are taking it back slowly but surely. ORD to MSN used to be a Skywest flight but now has 737s doing the 30 minute flight. Regionals are just hiring now to keep the wheel spinning in the meantime.....

 

I'm sure the same was said of 76 seaters, the saving grace this time may be that the senior pilots are getting younger and can't their votes can be bought for their last golden years, since they have more years left than previous generations

 

Anyone else ELOHEL'ing at the e190 thread on sapa forums??