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Originally Posted by 11atsomto (Post 3828002)

what is your b/s/e?
You want to be at home or at least in your own hotel room paid for by the company, fair desire. For the record, I live within 32 min drive.....and try to grab all the short call I can even on the last day...part of this is of course I am genetically pre programmed to grab all the ADD pay available (a la Free Holiday Inn Express breakfast) but also I find great pride in the my altruistic pursuit of keeping one less person from commuting in or driving by long distance for covering short call.

Doing the Lord’s work. Appreciate it!

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Originally Posted by 11atsomto (Post 3828372)

Not used to hearing that one at a legacy!

CA pay starting at 350 hours for many new hires this year...

So, is the final opinion that reserve still sucks, but perhaps just sucks less for commuters? Or is it working out better than a line for some? By better I mean less work in, more money out?

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Originally Posted by ThumbsUp (Post 3828469)

So, is the final opinion that reserve still sucks, but perhaps just sucks less for commuters? Or is it working out better than a line for some? By better I mean less work in, more money out?

Depends on the B/E/S. I love reserve on widebody

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Originally Posted by ThumbsUp (Post 3828469)

So, is the final opinion that reserve still sucks, but perhaps just sucks less for commuters? Or is it working out better than a line for some? By better I mean less work in, more money out?

Meh, so far it hasn’t been terrible as a commuter… But I generally just APU trips on my reserve days and I am in a BES where there has been plenty of options. I’ve had occasional SC conversions on days where there wasn’t a a trip to APU for or if I just didn’t bother to APU in order to not work the last day of work. (SC in the day before leading into my last day).

The things that drive me nuts is scheduling creating 1 day SCs in order to maintain a leash on reserves looking at a 6am release going into a HDO….

I don’t have an issue with the 1-days and tagging folks looking at a 1500 release going into FDOs. Ido have issues with it, but contractually, that’s what scheduling is going to do….

I got myself a LCL for next month. So I am looking forward to that and not worrying about SC conversions at all as a commuter.

At the end of the day, YMMV. So guys will hate it, some guys will love it. Some folks are indifferent. I am in the indifferent category. I am jr in my seat, so reserve comes with the territory.

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Originally Posted by 11atsomto (Post 3828002)

I appreciate all of my in-base guys efforts. But it prevent scheduling from creating more SCs to get leashes in more folks…

Keep taking any and all opportunities for add-pay, if I was in your shoes, i would be doing the same thing.

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Originally Posted by PossibleDeviation (Post 3828434)

CA pay starting at 350 hours for many new hires this year...

Tell me how that’s possible…. I just looked at my blended rate (6yr 737 CA) and it’s $343

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Originally Posted by flynd94 (Post 3828634)

Tell me how that’s possible…. I just looked at my blended rate (6yr 737 CA) and it’s $343

350 hours. Not dollars. As in, once the new hire captains (those who got captain in indoc), hit 350 hours with United, they start getting captain pay.

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Originally Posted by flynd94 (Post 3828634)

Tell me how that’s possible…. I just looked at my blended rate (6yr 737 CA) and it’s $343

Captain pay starts for some of them after 350 hours of time logged at UAL not $350/hr. But, for what it’s worth, second year captain pay is currently 332.81/hr. 345 and change starting in January.

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Originally Posted by KnightNight (Post 3828472)

Depends on the B/E/S. I love reserve on widebody

Probably, so. The lineholder flexibility has decreased from what it once was. Notsomuch from the new contract, but the lack of controls on min level manipulation. I think it was 5 years ago when bad day/worse day was programmed and now scheduling has finally cracked the code on how to manipulate min levels in a manner that preclude most BDWD trade-ability. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.