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10-13-2017, 07:08 AM
#4492
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 82
How about not forcing senior, line-holding, Newark-based dash pilots to sit reserve in Dulles even though they weren't awarded Dulles as their domicile during any vacancy or displacement. If you are a union representative, please do us all a favor and recuse yourself from any future discussions with management.
10-13-2017, 07:10 AM
#4493
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 82
10-13-2017, 07:34 AM
#4494
Layover Master
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: Seated
Posts: 4,322
10-13-2017, 07:48 AM
#4495
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 82
The company needs reserve coverage in IAD. Didn't a few guys got displaced to the jet from IAD? someone need to fill their spots. Can't expect to sit at home and get paid for doing nothing.
10-13-2017, 08:18 AM
#4496
Inverted
Joined APC: Jun 2009
Position: CL65 CA
Posts: 536
Seriously, they can pay new hires to sit at home for months in the training pipeline but they can’t reward their senior pilots with some paid time off until their class date. Another opportunity to improve pilot/management relations wasted.
10-13-2017, 08:19 AM
#4497
Layover Master
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: Seated
Posts: 4,322
You could also expect that the displacement would respect seniority and those that could hold a line would. They certainly left over 100 pilots sitting around doing nothing during the training backlog...
I can GUARANTEE you that this wouldn't happen at regionals with a respectable contract. See: Envoy, Air Wis, Horizon, Piedmont... Line holders are protected. Period. You can't suddenly be turned into a reservist. And with that suddenly be stripped to 11 days off.
Poor planning. Poor execution. Another way to reduce morale and increase the speed of the mass exodus.
10-13-2017, 08:30 AM
#4498
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 82
Let's be reasonable, new hires aren't qualified to fly any of the company's airplanes, so they can't sit anywhere but home. If the company told everyone in EWR to sit at home until their jet class, who's going to sit reserve in IAD when all of the IAD pilots are flying? They need coverage; if someone calls in sick, family emergency, vacation, timed out. They can't cancel the flight because Joe or Jane wants to sit at home.
10-13-2017, 08:36 AM
#4499
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 82
Yes, you can expect that.
You could also expect that the displacement would respect seniority and those that could hold a line would. They certainly left over 100 pilots sitting around doing nothing during the training backlog...
I can GUARANTEE you that this wouldn't happen at regionals with a respectable contract. See: Envoy, Air Wis, Horizon, Piedmont... Line holders are protected. Period. You can't suddenly be turned into a reservist. And with that suddenly be stripped to 11 days off.
Poor planning. Poor execution. Another way to reduce morale and increase the speed of the mass exodus.
You could also expect that the displacement would respect seniority and those that could hold a line would. They certainly left over 100 pilots sitting around doing nothing during the training backlog...
I can GUARANTEE you that this wouldn't happen at regionals with a respectable contract. See: Envoy, Air Wis, Horizon, Piedmont... Line holders are protected. Period. You can't suddenly be turned into a reservist. And with that suddenly be stripped to 11 days off.
Poor planning. Poor execution. Another way to reduce morale and increase the speed of the mass exodus.
10-13-2017, 08:51 AM
#4500
Layover Master
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Position: Seated
Posts: 4,322
I hear what you're saying about "line holdings", but if you got displaced to IAD from EWR, you're now based in IAD, so your seniority would allow you to jump over junior pilots and hold a "line" if your seniority allows. If you're EWR based, you can't bid for a "line" in another base, that's unfair to the pilots that are already based there.
No line-holding pilots should be displaced from their domicile to sitting reserve below people they are senior to. Even for one month.
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