Reserve Rules with new CBA
 

How are the new Reserve rules in the new CBA by comparison to the old contract and the other majors? Vast improvements or not much change?

A lot better. No LCR but pretty much improved in every other way.

15 minutes extra callout time implemeted at DOR.
short notice callout provisions (premium pay day 1 and close in parking) starts March 1.
LCO pay multiples apply to reserve as of Feb 1.

the other big changes are down the road.

Close-in parking or Uber Black to/from your house! I'd be all over that to avoid the parking goat rope at my airport.

yeah but we also gave them the ability to slide our reserve times so they could get out of that short notice call and all that comes with it.
Who knows how reserve proffer and ELLIT will work but thata not for 2 yrs so who cares.
I wouldnt go to say vastly better but it claws some of the pain back.
Straight senority on reserve call out would have made it go more senior.
Bottom line is if you're on reserve you're going to work

no we didn't. They've always had the ability to customize rap times and do it monthly by base. What this CBA did do is lock those times in and add extra pay. You think they are going to burn everyones' duty day by an extra hour just to save the occasional premium pay? I don't. Talk about shooting themselves in their own foot!

they've always had the ability to move a 0300 rap to 0230? I didnt know that.

They can’t change your RAP unless it’s a legality issue…supposedly.

Not only that, but the end of the RAP cannot be pushed back, so it will simply make your day shorter if the start has to be adjusted for legality. And it can't be pushed back more than 60 minutes -- any more than that, and you simply get the whole day off, with pay.

so instead of paying premium because the flight doesnt fit a reserve RAP they now can move the RAP so it fits. Genius
There is some stuff in this contract that'll have to fixed in 10 year that wasnt in there a month ago.

On reserve at SWA can you pick up open flying on your days off?

In theory yes, but in reality it is very difficult because of the way they build the buffers for your future block time.

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Thank you

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It’s okay when there is plenty of open time.

Reason being your block liability reduces after each reserve duty period is complete. Since you’ll never actually block the amount buffered, you become more legal as the month progresses.

Issue is in month line February, where most open time if being scarfed up straight, especially during the weekdays when a new hire is off. And TTGA is picked through. So by the time you become legal you can’t anything.

Sometime a better play for non commuters one reserve is to pick up additional reserve from open time. It’s always less competitive to bid them, and if your MTD is already high you have a good chance of not being used during the week in a slow month.

Unfortunately, the company can remove reserve from open time in January and February. Big give away a few contracts ago and wasn’t rectified this time around.

get them from trip trade give away as soon as it opens. Snag a few day trips that pay well. That's what I did on reserve. People give away day trips that pay 9 etc because they try and clear their board. Those will be better than anything a NH can get via open time. You can usually get 2-3 day trips and stay under buffers

Yes. reserve blocks or pairings. Your choice. SWA doesn't limit what you can do just because you're on reserve.

Must be nice...

yes. I’m usually legal to pick up 2-3 days OT. Could do more but I’m lazy and don’t want to be on the hook for that many days a month. I avg 120-130 a month on rsv with 2-3 days of pick ups from TTGA and letting sked doing their thing.

It is.

Something else, we can also trade pairings between reserves and line holders too and across bases. So if I'm LAX reserve and want to trade a LAS lineholder for his trip, we can do that too. I don't know why most if not all legacies don't allow trades between lineholders and reserves.

What? You mean the language is weak in this contract? Here's my surprised face?

My shop just shut down reserve pick up for 3 months due to the fact that reserve pick up isn't in the CBA. It's in a LOA that the company can shut down with 30 days notice. They did give reserves the ability to pick up sim sessions as seat subs on days off as a consolation prize. However the sim center is pretty empty due to slowing hiring. So I think that is more of just a token gesture. My hope is that they let us keep reserves being allowed to continue pick up seat subs when reserve pick up comes back in June. We are not athorized to pick up pilot to pilot on days off.

We can not add reserve days on days off AFAIK.

why on earth do they care if you pick up from another pilot? That doesn’t cost the company anything

It's very strange. One Union volunteer said that the line holders could use it to drop and pick up premium. I don't see it personally because there would be a lot less open time and pilots would have more flexibility. So there would be less premium and better QOL for pilots. A rare win win situation.

I have a lot of similar questions to you but this is the wrong forum. However, if I ask on the correct forum I am told that if I don't like it I should leave and go somewhere else...

Seeing the questions on FB 2028 is funny. The majority didn’t look past rates and retro. Shocking it isnt!

I'd say the overwhelming majority didnt read it at all, including a lot of the reps.
we need to move past this idea that if the NC days it's good then everyone should just vote yes. I havent flown with a single person who knows anything about the new rules., implementation, etc.
I've stopped explaining it to them.

SWAPA claims this contract is the best in the industry, so that must mean the reserve rules are the best in the industry does it not? I voted no, so I'm just asking.

Our reserve rules are pretty solid. Who has better SCR rules?

It's a holdover from when reserves were supposed to be for emergencies, and not to staff the airline. Also, back in the day "reserve = junior" so everyone else gets to pad their schedule first.

As for the out of base thing, it varies, and some places (Delta) are very parochial about "their bases flying", stemming, I guess, back from when everyone was supposed to live in base. Even the contractually permitted out of base stuff gets some people shouting. But my friends from the NWA side just shrug, and say it wasn't a big deal at all there because everyone commuted anyway.

The buffers are changing Q3 of this year. Section 9G goes into detail. According to what I heard on the podcasts/roadshows it should reduce the buffers to a more reasonable level allowing for greater pickup options. It also fixes an issue of "synthetic liabilites" where the system couldn't see the actual amount of flying due to tech debt and so used a more restrictive number than necessary. Guess we'll see how it plays out in practice but there should be an improvement.