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Old 03-22-2014, 10:11 PM
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Left seat I would guess. That's a whole different story. The geniuses in manpower planning forgot to upgrade anyone while they hired fo's for the last two years.
Yup. Been offering 200% pay since 20 Dec pretty much. On reserve so it doesn't matter to me, but they fly us to FAR/UPA limits, whichever comes first.
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Yup. Been offering 200% pay since 20 Dec pretty much. On reserve so it doesn't matter to me, but they fly us to FAR/UPA limits, whichever comes first.
Excuse my ignorance, but how does this 200% pay work on Reserve?
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Old 03-24-2014, 08:11 AM
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Excuse my ignorance, but how does this 200% pay work on Reserve?
He's talkin about the multiple CA open time announcements offering 200%.

oops we forgot to upgrade!
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Old 03-24-2014, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by TankerDriver View Post
Excuse my ignorance, but how does this 200% pay work on Reserve?
It's not normal. That's why I said, on reserve it doesn't matter. However I have heard they've occasionally gotten desperate enough to offer 1.5 to 2 times rate to a reserve who will fly on a day off.
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What about DCA/IAD on the Bus for reserve? What about line holders, trips commutable?

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United has ready reserve? Is that what 'field standby' is? Is that a carry over from Continental? I can't imagine a major carrier having that provision in 2014.
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United has ready reserve? Is that what 'field standby' is? Is that a carry over from Continental? I can't imagine a major carrier having that provision in 2014.
LCAL had it in the contract, but I never saw it used in over a decade. Since this UPA section was implemented on 1 Jan it has become routine. No theories on what caused the change other than abuse, but something's changed.

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LCAL had it in the contract, but I never saw it used in over a decade. Since this UPA section was implemented on 1 Jan it has become routine. No theories on what caused the change other than abuse, but something's changed.

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In the old L-UAL contract, they had to pay 4 hours credit for a field standby, so they seldom used it. It doesn't really cost them anything now.
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LCAL had it in the contract, but I never saw it used in over a decade. Since this UPA section was implemented on 1 Jan it has become routine. No theories on what caused the change other than abuse, but something's changed.

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Do guys actually get used often when sitting field standby? Are they the first used or just in case a normal length callout wouldn't work?
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