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10-19-2014 | 05:31 PM
#7271
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From: Another RJ FO
I feel your pain. The trip mix in DEN has become so lousy that something like 75% of people are doing exclusively four days, and people are volunteering for ASE just to get away from the 4-on-2-off cycle. I know more than a few people who thought they'd stay here with their cushy schedules who are now contemplating leaving because they can no longer hold locals and two-days and figure if they're gonna be stuck doing a 4-day they might as well do it for Southwest or Frontier or commute for United until the day comes they can hold DEN again. Maybe the company is doing it on purpose? That's one way to increase attrition at the top, I guess.
10-19-2014 | 05:50 PM
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I know the computers/software we are using to create our schedules is quite antiquated. Recently, just read about a man who runs a gambling business, and he simulates the entire football season 50,000 times in under 2 minutes. Yep, 256 games with 22 players imputed to come up with his predictions.
SkyWest could pay this guy a few mil to save them millions per year, but that's against our corporate philosophy.
10-19-2014 | 06:07 PM
#7273
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From: Another RJ FO
I think it's a combo of SGU and UA/AA/DL/AL/US differing schedules. More so SGU's problem since they refuse to change how they operate in Crew support/Planning.
I know the computers/software we are using to create our schedules is quite antiquated. Recently, just read about a man who runs a gambling business, and he simulates the entire football season 50,000 times in under 2 minutes. Yep, 256 games with 22 players imputed to come up with his predictions.
SkyWest could pay this guy a few mil to save them millions per year, but that's against our corporate philosophy.
I know the computers/software we are using to create our schedules is quite antiquated. Recently, just read about a man who runs a gambling business, and he simulates the entire football season 50,000 times in under 2 minutes. Yep, 256 games with 22 players imputed to come up with his predictions.
SkyWest could pay this guy a few mil to save them millions per year, but that's against our corporate philosophy.
10-20-2014 | 08:17 AM
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Fixed the above for you. While I have only had it happen once, I think that even once is too much. Amazingly enough, the pilot is no longer here and rumor is that it was due to similar experiences as mine. I don't want to paint the pilots here with a broad brush because 99.9% of the people I fly with are amazing. But to my original point, unless you are flying with FaceBiter, I am pretty sure this has never happened to a guy.
lol
10-20-2014 | 09:35 AM
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I feel your pain. The trip mix in DEN has become so lousy that something like 75% of people are doing exclusively four days, and people are volunteering for ASE just to get away from the 4-on-2-off cycle. I know more than a few people who thought they'd stay here with their cushy schedules who are now contemplating leaving because they can no longer hold locals and two-days and figure if they're gonna be stuck doing a 4-day they might as well do it for Southwest or Frontier or commute for United until the day comes they can hold DEN again. Maybe the company is doing it on purpose? That's one way to increase attrition at the top, I guess.
10-20-2014 | 10:01 AM
#7277
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From: Another RJ FO
On reserve Crew Support treats you like you're not human. Five 16 hour work days in a row? No problem. Call at 4am to come to the airport and sit there for 8 hours doing nothing? You'll do a lot of that too. Sometimes they deadhead you to some random city to do a local (day trip) and when you get off your deadhead you find out that you're actually going to be doing a 5 day trip now and won't be home for the next week.
Basically since we don't have a contract you're just their *****. They can do whatever they want with you on reserve and you can't fight it. Unfortunately they don't have much of a conscience and they really do do whatever they want with you.
10-20-2014 | 10:03 AM
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Wow, that sounds terrible! Cant wait to get started! LOL
10-20-2014 | 10:50 AM
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10-20-2014 | 10:55 AM
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From: Another RJ FO
Luckily I only had to sit reserve for a year so I didn't have it nearly as bad as some of the 6+ year perma-reserve captains. We'll see what happens when I upgrade.
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