777/787 reserve
09-02-2015 | 10:55 AM
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This thread is good stuff. As an aspiring accidental airline pilot, I'm learning a hell of a lot good stuff about UA reserve. Sounds like you guys need to fix the SC abuse; it almost sounds like a LC-in-name-only system. One of my bigger motivations for scoping out interest in United over places like Southwest was the differences in reserve scheduling and utilization. This SC crap kinda negates that advantage.
09-02-2015 | 12:56 PM
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This thread is good stuff. As an aspiring accidental airline pilot, I'm learning a hell of a lot good stuff about UA reserve. Sounds like you guys need to fix the SC abuse; it almost sounds like a LC-in-name-only system. One of my bigger motivations for scoping out interest in United over places like Southwest was the differences in reserve scheduling and utilization. This SC crap kinda negates that advantage.
09-02-2015 | 06:06 PM
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Indeed. For me, the retirement is the big go/no-go. Non B-fund airlines are no-go for my family. Otherwise staying over at Uncle's gummy Roosterhouse factory works out better for us, much as it would pain me.
I used to think commuters were self-inflicting idiots, but after learning from the personal anecdotes of friends and co-workers in the industry, I've come to understand the lifestyle as a true occupational hazard, one that comes to a lot of you not by choice. It can happen to anyone, so reserve rules matter.
For now I'm watching the food fight from the cheap seats, but as things continue to depart controlled flight down here in GovCo, this is becoming closer to my future reality.
Sorry for the thread drift, now back to EWR/ORD 777 commuter reserve.
I used to think commuters were self-inflicting idiots, but after learning from the personal anecdotes of friends and co-workers in the industry, I've come to understand the lifestyle as a true occupational hazard, one that comes to a lot of you not by choice. It can happen to anyone, so reserve rules matter.
For now I'm watching the food fight from the cheap seats, but as things continue to depart controlled flight down here in GovCo, this is becoming closer to my future reality.
Sorry for the thread drift, now back to EWR/ORD 777 commuter reserve.
09-02-2015 | 06:57 PM
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They can't even do that right. Supposedly the SC on one's Master Sched disappears when converted to a FSB and company cannot accurately track FDP's as a result and have agreed to stop converting SC's to FSB's w/o an intervening rest period, from what I read on another forum.
09-02-2015 | 07:05 PM
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Indeed. For me, the retirement is the big go/no-go. Non B-fund airlines are no-go for my family. Otherwise staying over at Uncle's gummy Roosterhouse factory works out better for us, much as it would pain me.
I used to think commuters were self-inflicting idiots, but after learning from the personal anecdotes of friends and co-workers in the industry, I've come to understand the lifestyle as a true occupational hazard, one that comes to a lot of you not by choice. It can happen to anyone, so reserve rules matter.
For now I'm watching the food fight from the cheap seats, but as things continue to depart controlled flight down here in GovCo, this is becoming closer to my future reality.
Sorry for the thread drift, now back to EWR/ORD 777 commuter reserve.
I used to think commuters were self-inflicting idiots, but after learning from the personal anecdotes of friends and co-workers in the industry, I've come to understand the lifestyle as a true occupational hazard, one that comes to a lot of you not by choice. It can happen to anyone, so reserve rules matter.
For now I'm watching the food fight from the cheap seats, but as things continue to depart controlled flight down here in GovCo, this is becoming closer to my future reality.
Sorry for the thread drift, now back to EWR/ORD 777 commuter reserve.
Contracts come and go, work rules change, but all things being equal your seniority progression will be decades faster at the big three over SWA.
09-02-2015 | 07:39 PM
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Even where you live can change. Ask the people who were based in HNL years ago, SEA, junior in DEN etc etc. It's all a crap shoot. This crazy industry is about luck and timing IMO.
09-03-2015 | 03:03 AM
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09-03-2015 | 03:09 AM
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UAL-EWR, SFO
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