Doing the Lord’s work. Appreciate it!

 

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?

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.