How many Short Calls per Bid period the company is allowed to assign a pilot or a pilot pick up for extra pay?

Is there a maximum?

 

After 2 unused SC's, you get 1 hour of add pay per SC with no maximum that I know of.

I was scheduled for 8 SC's one month and not used on any of them. I subsequently received 6 hours of add pay because of it.

 

I was looking at the reserve list at the end of last month. I think I had 4 unused SCs in March. One guy on the list had 10 unused SCs in March. ... if you're used on SC, that SC will not be added to your totals.

So no, I don't think there's a maximum but you don't get assigned/can't pick up SCs if your available days don't fit their silos.

 

Yes and no. There are some minor technicalities to the proper solution. While you might want to consider it "add pay", the addition is actually added to your MPG.

In order to get paid for the SC, it must remain "unused".

You will see additions of 1 hour pay for each unused SC after your second and up through the 5th regardless as to whether you pick it up or it is assigned. After your 5th, contractually you are only to be paid on those SC's that are assigned. I won't comment on how IT is dealing with the determination of "assigned" v "aggressively picked up" as that is not prudent on a public forum.

 

I've never aggressively picked up a SC, only assigned by scheduling.

 

That's a passive pickup.

 

There is NO limit to the amount of SC's the company can assign to an individual pilot. That's right, NO LIMIT! After the 2nd UNUSED short-call you get an hours pay for each SC picked up OR Assigned up to 5 SC. After 5 assigned or pick up SC an individual pilot will only receive an hours pay IF they are ASSIGNED a SC. However, apparently IT has not programed the pay properly and I am told a pilot can pick up additional SC"s after 5 SC and still get paid.- this may change when our crack IT department changes the code for payroll - if they haven't done so by now

 

Well, you may not know this but if a particularly onerous trip comes open, I know that there is a large population of reserve pilots who will pick up a SC to avoid the onerous trip.

 

And be careful. When you aggressively pick up short calls, no matter how many, your pay after 5 short calls can be affected. You may work SC or FS for free.

3-C-1-b-(1)-(b)
When a reserve has(5) five unused Short Call and/or Field Standby assignments in a Bid period that were ASSIGNED to him((that is, not picked up), his MPG shall increase by 1(one) hour for each subsequent unused Short Call or FS assignment that is also assigned to him.

So in the first 5 SC or FS assignments you get paid 3 hours of pay. First two free then 1 hour per the next three. In these you may aggressively pick up and be paid, but buyer beware, after five, every one you aggressively picked up in the first five or later counts against you receiving additional money.

If you really want to maximize money in hopes of greater than 5 SC's,
Don't aggressively pick up. Food for thought.

 

Accurate but it's not being applied right now because IT hasn't yet added the ability to automatically distinguish between an assigned SC and a picked up SC, and they aren't tracking it manually.