CAL A/B Reserve question
10-13-2012 | 03:40 AM
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If you are talking about after 1500 on a reserve day then yes. An A reserve is on call 24 hours a day during his reserve block. He can be called at any time and given a 9-hour break for a B reserve callout window. For some commuters A reserve is essentially useless. Watching TV in Florida at 10pm, phone rings and told you're converted to B reserve in EWR with a callout of 7am. You're hosed.
If you're talking about after 1500 on the day off before a reserve day, then no, as flybynuts said.
If you're talking about after 1500 on the day off before a reserve day, then no, as flybynuts said.
Here's the skinny, as a 5 year CAL reserve guy who bids A.
According to our contract, the earliest an A reserve can be used is 0900 on his first reserve day.
HOWEVER, the company, in a "that's not what we meant" moment, actually had the previous MEC agree to an LOA that basically says even on a day off you must check your schedule at 1500 the day before starting a reserve block.
That's where they can get you with the conversions to short call or place a 5am show on your line.
That's the straight dope.
10-13-2012 | 01:21 PM
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That's correct. Print out or save a copy of your schedule at 1500 LBT. Make sure the computer time is there and it says 1500 or 1501. Them you can sit back a relax (even if they call a hundred times) and let them call you at 0001 for a at earliest 9am show. We have a lot of new schedulers and they are not that good and will not tell the truth.
10-14-2012 | 05:37 AM
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That's correct. Print out or save a copy of your schedule at 1500 LBT. Make sure the computer time is there and it says 1500 or 1501. Them you can sit back a relax (even if they call a hundred times) and let them call you at 0001 for a at earliest 9am show. We have a lot of new schedulers and they are not that good and will not tell the truth.
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