CaptainDooley

You need to call the union immediately.
You are absolutely allowed to drop all of your reserve days when on a buildup line. Be aware if you do that and don't pick up trips you will not be paid guarantee.
We need to enforce our contract or this crap will continue to happen. Most of the people in Scheduling don't know our contract.
If you are on reserve, I suggest you read the reserve sections of the contract. Then when you call and they say you can't do that, ask for a Supervisor and politely tell them that section xx of the contract says I can drop the trips. If they still say no, make sure you get their name and then report it to the union.

CaptainDooley

Reserve is always a moving target at the regionals. What it looks like today does not mean it will be the same 6 months from now. I will be 7 months in May, and I'm close to a line.

All MSP planes are moving out west where Delta wants them. Rumor is they plan to add a lot of SEA flights. But no word yet from a Delta.

My guess if you are a new hire this summer you could pick LAX or SEA out of training.

flyingak

7mo DOH or 7mo on the line??


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flyingak

So.........I went down this road during my battles, there's some post on this very subject somewhere back a ways. But can you provide actual documentation from the CBA for this? Because the only thing I can find is 25.(h) which states that Build-Up line holders can SWAP RSV days. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any proof that they can be dropped per the contract despite everybody and their brother telling me that you can? Again, I think they finally just got fed up with me and gave in, lol

VIRotate

The only thing I can find is 25. (e) It doesn't say anything specifically about being able to drop rsv but it does say that as long as the scheduled duty periods don't fall below 50% and I have a min of 37.5 hours, I can drop. Well isn't rsv considered part of the duty period? Can someone enlighten me on this? It seems like no one has a definitive answer.

"e. Trip Drops

(1) Pilots may drop a Trip(s), provided the Pilot’s Scheduled Credit Time does not fall below 37:30, except that a CDO or build-up Pilot may not drop more than 50% of the total scheduled Duty Periods (as of the end of SCP). For purposes of this subparagraph e., (i) Duty Periods scheduled to commence in one month and end in the following month will be counted in the month in which the Duty Period was scheduled to begin, and (ii) Credit Time for a Trip scheduled to commence in one month and end in the following month will be counted in the month in which it is scheduled, with minimum Duty Period credit for such Trip handled pursuant to Section 4.B.2."

Da40Pilot

What? No you can't. FLICA allowed you to do this only because of a glitch and CS couldn't do anything about it so they looked the other way. Nowhere in the contract does it say that we can drop our reserve days (and be payed below guarantee) - so if you have the verbage, please share it. Is this on some kind of a LOA?

Fpmx772

Anyone else notice IOCC is down?


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aTomatoFlames

Working for me.

Fpmx772

Ya mine is now working too. For about 20 mins it kept giving me some critical error when I tried to log in. Thought I finally got fired and they forgot to notify me about it


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Quest

Contract question: CS called me off ready reserve last night for a STL turn and we ended up getting back to MSP at 3am this morning. Today is supposed to be my last day of reserve, so they have me on a rap from 1400-1800. The captain was pretty adamant that I shouldn't have to be on reserve today since I already had an assignment that went into today and today is my last day, but couldn't find it in the contract. Are they right? Or is the 4 hours of reserve I have later today legit?