Other than days off per month our reserve rules here are trash. The only place with possibly worse reserve rules is Global Reserve at United

 

Fixed it for you.

 

Compared to the last cba, our rules are way better than they were. Next contract they better fix all the crap that’s wrong like: Elitt rsv blocks, rsv pay same as lineholder for reroutes/premium, proffer trips, released from rsv once assigned trip, automatic release upon return to base on last day, waive dhd on last day if nothing else assigned upon checkin, etc.

I show up to work, my guaranteed pay goes up…most airlines do not work that way. Your rsv trips work toward guarantee, not increase it.

 

While commuting to reserve is a flaming turd at SWA, there are some saving graces. I have done it under two contracts, and this one is vastly superior to the old one. No reserve guarantee. What you fly or sit is what you get paid. No field standby. You also only have to work 15 or 16 days a month max.
You can keep the rest of it, but after working a few months of it after upgrade, it wasn't as bad as I remember doing it as a FO, when I had to sit under the old reserve guarantee for 18 months. That was garbage. Multiple times I checked out of my hotel room and showed up to the airport to find out that someone had taken my reserve trip on extra fly and that I needed to go back to the hotel. They would also fly you right up to the monthly guarantee then sit you for a couple days so that you could provide free insurance for them. Pilots started pushing back and either calling in sick or flipping reserve blocks to lock in their pay and they were getting called into the chief pilots office. Fun times. This contract was a huge improvement. I expect the next one to be even more so.

 

and long call

 

we have long call. Problem is you still have ti show at reserve time.

 

remember one of the bullet points, sorry if triggering, was you'll get paid as a line holder. I called a rep out in that and he believed what he said.
remember to read the fine print.
I've talked with two reps who believed we got full retro last time.

 

we sometimes get longer notice for a trip but it’s not technically a twelve hour long call after your rap starts.

 

true, but I think for real long call we'd need more reserves, thus more reserves. Meaning on reserve longer.
maybe thats good... who knows?
I'd like SRC to do an expose on it.

 

Yep, and the front side window is closer to your face. 3 years on the MD-11 and 11 years on 747s all over the world for hours of monotonous over water and foreign countries, I have no problem with 18 years of narrow body domestic flying to end my career.