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01-15-2022, 11:13 AM
#221
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Joined APC: Jan 2016
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Originally Posted by itsokimapilot
You can trade between pilots without restriction. There’s no way to trade with the company.
You can also give away your reserve blocks or unused days while on reserve. Right now everything is crazy because we are so undermanned, I doubt many are picking up reserve .
01-15-2022, 11:34 AM
#222
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Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 291
Originally Posted by tlamjaj;[url=tel:3353301
3353301[/url]]There's no trading of reserve days whatsoever?
01-15-2022, 12:16 PM
#223
New Hire
Joined APC: Mar 2021
Posts: 9
Originally Posted by usernamehere
Another thing that some people do is trade with another pilot a reserve block of days for their flying (another pilot). You can then elitt (trade with company) that flying that you traded for.
Pick up a crappy trip out of monthly open time and then elitt it for one or more trips in Elitt (trip trade). All traded trips will then pay second year pay.
01-15-2022, 04:34 PM
#224
Line Holder
Joined APC: Mar 2013
Posts: 54
Originally Posted by Proximity
Two and half weeks...you'll drop two weekend trips, giving you an 18 days block if you have start date purity.
I’m weekend reserve and don’t recall vacation giving me that much time off.
01-15-2022, 06:17 PM
#225
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Joined APC: Oct 2019
Posts: 249
Originally Posted by Lake Chuck
I thought vacation for Reserve on drops days it it overlaps and you still work the remainder of the block?
I’m weekend reserve and don’t recall vacation giving me that much time off.
I’m weekend reserve and don’t recall vacation giving me that much time off.
01-16-2022, 08:13 AM
#228
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Joined APC: Sep 2011
Posts: 1,004
Originally Posted by BLAHBLAHBLAH
Things have gotten less flexible. Lines will still be between 12 to 15 days of work a month. The only way to get rid of a trip is to call in sick or know how to bid month to month overlap. Commute ability depends on which city pairs but I have done it for almost 5 years and average 2 to 3 overnights a month on my dime. I averaged about 14 days a month working and average credit per month was about 145 trips per month. I blocked about 700 hours for the year. I am a senior FO and this has been a special year. You accrue sickleave pretty quickly. And with the line bidding vacation can mean 2 1/2 or three weeks off if you bid correctly. Reserve is the least flexible as you could not trade days like you can if you have a normal line. Reserve tends to go Senior on low flying months and Junior on high flying months but there have not been many low-flying months in the last year. Expect to be junior assigned during busy times of the year. Two times a month and two days at a time are legal per our contract. Especially when ‘junior’.
01-16-2022, 11:08 AM
#229
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Joined APC: Jun 2014
Posts: 160
Originally Posted by SlipKid
Amazing what a difference a couple of years make.
This
Isn’t it amazing?!?!? Predicted here on this site just two years ago, “only Delta and SW will survive!” Now SW has Leprosy and is to be shunned at all cost. FedEx is the golden child and the tens of billions of dollars of debt that United and American have are of no concern.
As long as I can live in base and work PM’s, I am here for the duration of my career or as long as the colors keep flying. Like everyone says, you won’t know what the right choice is until you reach your 60’s.
01-16-2022, 11:24 AM
#230
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Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,456
This is a recurring theme since Orville and Wilbur. Today's golden child is tomorrows airline that nobody would ever consider. Rinse and repeat.
The federal government has shown that they are not going to let the industry fall on its face again. Easy money is the way of the future no matter what party is in control. The US is really the last great place to be a professional airline pilot despite it losing some of its shine over the years. Consolidation has led us to a point where each airline is so big, that the failure of any of the major airlines would hurt the macro economy.
Congress has also artificially raised the bar to entering the career by imposing the 1500 hour rule. I know there is movement afoot to reduce that or do away with it altogether, and I sincerely hope that never comes to pass.
The federal government has shown that they are not going to let the industry fall on its face again. Easy money is the way of the future no matter what party is in control. The US is really the last great place to be a professional airline pilot despite it losing some of its shine over the years. Consolidation has led us to a point where each airline is so big, that the failure of any of the major airlines would hurt the macro economy.
Congress has also artificially raised the bar to entering the career by imposing the 1500 hour rule. I know there is movement afoot to reduce that or do away with it altogether, and I sincerely hope that never comes to pass.
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