Wait! What?? Old hotel 8 min away is just fine.

 

It's fine for a short layover...anything longer needs to be downtown. Those of us that are not counting the days until retirement might actually enjoy it.

 

Yup!

Slam clickers dont care where we stay, for the most part, because they never leave the room.

Those who like to socialize a little and get out enjoy nicer surroundings to partake in such activities.

Always find it funny how an extra 15 minutes in a van is enough to make it "not worth" staying in a nicer location for a 22 hour layover.

 

Looks like we are not the only company who devalues their customer service employees...

United Airlines could outsource up to 2,000 airport jobs

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102335441

 

Will not attend and now have a ticket to the January 30th road show in Dallas. PM if interested.

 

For the scheduling gurus: I have a 1 day trip scheduled to end at 23:59. For February bidding purpose; since the :30 min post-flight puts this into an additional day on flica--do I assume its counted as a day of work or not?

Looking at the contract language and leaning towards "Not" based on 12-E-2. But this is where looking at the Flica calendar one can really get burned because it shows one thing, and in reality, is another.

Thanks...BB

 

That contract section is more having to do with a duty period that runs delayed past midnight and when (past 2am) you would be eligible for a comp day or day off pay.

If your schedule to arrive at 23:59, and your duty off period is 00:29, you will be considered to have worked that last day, even if it is for 29 minutes. So it will not be counted as a "day off" on Flica but will be counted as a consecutive day when using it towards a conflict etc.

I always look at bids that have these days in it to end a trip or day trips. FLica sort will show it not being a day off (on that past midnight day) but it essentially is if you live in base and will be home that night. Nice way to realize an extra few days at home.

To further complicate, the bid packets may count the past midnight duty periods as a day off on reserve lines. So be careful with the "days off" in the bid packages on, for example, R19 lines. Dont know if they have corrected this on the bid packets, I usually dont bid off the packets but use Flica sort instead.

Confused now?

Don't be shy about contacting our scheduling committee with questions. I went to them a lot with contract questions when I was getting the hang of section 25 and 12 and they are a BIG help.

 

This is also just some food for thought but when bidding conflicts, it's better to have a conflict because of a 30/7 as opposed to trip touching. You make more money that way (I think anyway, lol)

When trips touch you don't get paid for both days where the conflict is........

 

I would say it depends on the conflict. If you have a carry over into the next month and an overlap, yeah, you dont get paid for both.

However if you end a month on a 5 day stretch with a clean end at the end, and bid a conflict 4 day to start the next month, its better to not have the 30/7 issue. They could clean up the next month to drop you to 6 days straight and if you are close to 30/7 (or really 29/7) you cant pick up anything on those conflict dropped days because youre at 29/7.

I like picking up red eye turns to end the month, because each one counts as 2 days worked, so try and snag one of the 28th and 30th, it will count as 4 days worked in a 31 day month. I bid a conflict 4 day to start the next month, once final schedule are out, I drop the red eye turns because everything is still green, and I score my conflict drop for the next month because I rarely see them drop the prior month to clean conflicts up. So there is the 8 days off, paid conflict, and now available to pick up a 4 day during IOT for the first of the new month.

 

^ I like where your heads at! Solid strategy