Spirit of NKS
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The system is flawed. Is it better than '07? Yes. No faxing it in and processed once a day at midnight seniority order. IMO, it needs to change to seniority based, and processed every 4 hours. Why is a pilot being "punished" because he's halfway between MSP and LAS. Oh. And they should all be at 150% pay.
You have a problem here.
The system is flawed. Is it better than '07? Yes. No faxing it in and processed once a day at midnight seniority order. IMO, it needs to change to seniority based, and processed every 4 hours. Why is a pilot being "punished" because he's halfway between MSP and LAS. Oh. And they should all be at 150% pay.
Hope you're wearing your Nomex underwear...
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Joined APC: Jan 2014
Position: A320 Left
Posts: 715
The system is flawed. Is it better than '07? Yes. No faxing it in and processed once a day at midnight seniority order. IMO, it needs to change to seniority based, and processed every 4 hours. Why is a pilot being "punished" because he's halfway between MSP and LAS. Oh. And they should all be at 150% pay.
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Joined APC: Jan 2014
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Well, FLICA isn't configured that way. You can submit a request at 1200. There was no conspiracy, that captain wasn't the first to submit the request.
Seniority rules in almost every other facet of our contract, but leaving DOT first come/first serve seems fine by me. I think a more appropriate change would be to our 'junior assignment' language in section 25. It should be retitled 'premium pay' and the draft order should be from senior to junior. We don't have involuntary junior manning, so offering 200% to the most junior pilot seems backwards.
The bottom line is that DOT can not be awarded before 12:01. I have never been able to bid for anything before 12:01. If Matyas allows this to happen he is conspiring with the company to allow lower seniority pilots ( his union friends making a lower rate) to gain an uncontracted advantage
Additionally there is damning evidence of senior captains being removed from juicy trips for training in January and those trips were never put into IOT for seniority bid but magically showed up for DOT for lower paid pilots to take.
This reminds me of when Chris Gonnsen ( retirement chair) signed off on the Schwab 401k even though the pilots were forced to absorb greater expenses to save the company money. Two months later Gonnsen was placed into the training dept.
Additionally there is damning evidence of senior captains being removed from juicy trips for training in January and those trips were never put into IOT for seniority bid but magically showed up for DOT for lower paid pilots to take.
This reminds me of when Chris Gonnsen ( retirement chair) signed off on the Schwab 401k even though the pilots were forced to absorb greater expenses to save the company money. Two months later Gonnsen was placed into the training dept.
Seniority rules in almost every other facet of our contract, but leaving DOT first come/first serve seems fine by me. I think a more appropriate change would be to our 'junior assignment' language in section 25. It should be retitled 'premium pay' and the draft order should be from senior to junior. We don't have involuntary junior manning, so offering 200% to the most junior pilot seems backwards.
The bottom line is that DOT can not be awarded before 12:01. I have never been able to bid for anything before 12:01. If Matyas allows this to happen he is conspiring with the company to allow lower seniority pilots ( his union friends making a lower rate) to gain an uncontracted advantage
Additionally there is damning evidence of senior captains being removed from juicy trips for training in January and those trips were never put into IOT for seniority bid but magically showed up for DOT for lower paid pilots to take.
This reminds me of when Chris Gonnsen ( retirement chair) signed off on the Schwab 401k even though the pilots were forced to absorb greater expenses to save the company money. Two months later Gonnsen was placed into the training dept.
Additionally there is damning evidence of senior captains being removed from juicy trips for training in January and those trips were never put into IOT for seniority bid but magically showed up for DOT for lower paid pilots to take.
This reminds me of when Chris Gonnsen ( retirement chair) signed off on the Schwab 401k even though the pilots were forced to absorb greater expenses to save the company money. Two months later Gonnsen was placed into the training dept.
funny! Where's that "say it aint so" smiley thingy?
One of the big fights happening when I was a noob was over union guys in training. A union guy gave me a sim session back then and taught me a bunch of great stuff. That was back in the Hatfield (DTW) vs McCoy (FLL) days. What a cluster all that stuff was
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Joined APC: Jan 2014
Position: A320 Left
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You must have never worked at an airline that could really JA you. If you want premium pay for OT, tell Mattyus to negotiate premium pay for open time. Keep the JA wording the way it is. Afe we really stupid enough to dump our industry leading prohibition on being JA'd just soma couple of money hO's can make a day of double time. NO THANKS!
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