Trip trade shenanigans
02-26-2014, 06:06 PM
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Trip trade shenanigans
The ability to massage my schedule has left with my golf game.
Yet again, trying to move a trip back 1 day (still over the weekend)... 3 day for a 3 day. Seniority system denying the trade for "no coverage". I check the "reserve availability" tab...27 reserves! Thats almost twice the number previously required under our old system. Total BS. This trade will also get me a landing, precluding the need for the company to pay me 7 hrs to do a DEN loopty doo. Emailed chief, submitting another PDR and contacting rep again..... This place is a mess, but hey we will have a new contract by 2020!
Yet again, trying to move a trip back 1 day (still over the weekend)... 3 day for a 3 day. Seniority system denying the trade for "no coverage". I check the "reserve availability" tab...27 reserves! Thats almost twice the number previously required under our old system. Total BS. This trade will also get me a landing, precluding the need for the company to pay me 7 hrs to do a DEN loopty doo. Emailed chief, submitting another PDR and contacting rep again..... This place is a mess, but hey we will have a new contract by 2020!
02-26-2014, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Privateer20
The ability to massage my schedule has left with my golf game.
Yet again, trying to move a trip back 1 day (still over the weekend)... 3 day for a 3 day. Seniority system denying the trade for "no coverage". I check the "reserve availability" tab...27 reserves! Thats almost twice the number previously required under our old system. Total BS. This trade will also get me a landing, precluding the need for the company to pay me 7 hrs to do a DEN loopty doo. Emailed chief, submitting another PDR and contacting rep again..... This place is a mess, but hey we will have a new contract by 2020!
Yet again, trying to move a trip back 1 day (still over the weekend)... 3 day for a 3 day. Seniority system denying the trade for "no coverage". I check the "reserve availability" tab...27 reserves! Thats almost twice the number previously required under our old system. Total BS. This trade will also get me a landing, precluding the need for the company to pay me 7 hrs to do a DEN loopty doo. Emailed chief, submitting another PDR and contacting rep again..... This place is a mess, but hey we will have a new contract by 2020!
02-27-2014, 06:11 AM
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Welcome to United! It's been that way for LUAL for YEARS. What's more, since all Real Time Trip Trades are subject to crew desk approval, you can pretty much assume that your ONLY hope of trip trading is the same or better number of days, same start date, before about 7am the day prior to the trip, AND you'd better be senior.
02-27-2014, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by gettinbumped
Welcome to United! It's been that way for LUAL for YEARS. What's more, since all Real Time Trip Trades are subject to crew desk approval, you can pretty much assume that your ONLY hope of trip trading is the same or better number of days, same start date, before about 7am the day prior to the trip, AND you'd better be senior.
02-27-2014, 07:32 AM
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Trip trade shenanigans
Could someone explain why the Pool Display screen that did show coverage under l-Cal system had to be removed. The answer provided by the Union two months ago seemed like a cop out. I understand we're technically challenged in the IT department, but to have zero transparency with regards to coverage levels is unacceptable.
02-27-2014, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by gettinbumped
Welcome to United! It's been that way for LUAL for YEARS. What's more, since all Real Time Trip Trades are subject to crew desk approval, you can pretty much assume that your ONLY hope of trip trading is the same or better number of days, same start date, before about 7am the day prior to the trip, AND you'd better be senior.
When the company won't let pilots drop trips because they don't have enough manpower, or are worried about enough manpower, they aren't overstaffed.
02-27-2014, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by pilot64golfer
So much for the "LUAL was overstaffed" theory.
When the company won't let pilots drop trips because they don't have enough manpower, or are worried about enough manpower, they aren't overstaffed.
When the company won't let pilots drop trips because they don't have enough manpower, or are worried about enough manpower, they aren't overstaffed.
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