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11-14-2012, 06:58 AM
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11-14-2012, 07:10 AM
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11-14-2012, 07:27 AM
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11-14-2012, 07:45 AM
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11-14-2012, 08:04 AM
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11-14-2012, 08:13 AM
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I had a new hire FE back in 99 who was complaining about almost everything. He hated ALPA because we had a cap and it restricted his ability to pick up time. I asked him how much he would fly with no cap and he thought he could credit around 110 hours a month. I said how much would that pay you. He did the math and gave me a number. I said your incorrect!. If we had no cap your pay rate would be zero because you would be on the street furloughed, are you sure you want ALPA to negotiate that?"
I am not sure he really got it. There are pilots right now on the DALPA forum asking for all pickup restrictions to be removed. They don't get it either. We need to work to reduce the pickup limits not increase them. The increase in allowable ALV was one of my bigger stumbling blocks on the new contract. We flew the same number of system wide pilot block hours in 2007 as we did in 2001. We did it however with 2500 fewer pilots. How? Work rule changes and cap increases. I would rather fly in a higher paying category working fewer days a month then a lower paying category with more hours per month.
I am not sure he really got it. There are pilots right now on the DALPA forum asking for all pickup restrictions to be removed. They don't get it either. We need to work to reduce the pickup limits not increase them. The increase in allowable ALV was one of my bigger stumbling blocks on the new contract. We flew the same number of system wide pilot block hours in 2007 as we did in 2001. We did it however with 2500 fewer pilots. How? Work rule changes and cap increases. I would rather fly in a higher paying category working fewer days a month then a lower paying category with more hours per month.
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11-14-2012, 08:19 AM
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If they can do it without having to use a seat filler for you being gone then they will approve it. If they have to use a seat filler, it costs them more and causes issues with training scheduling. That's what I was told once. Sometimes it takes more assets to let you off than it does to just make you go through.
As long as you call before the monthly instructor training schedule is out its easy to get a change, after that, nearly impossible.
I went through MD88 school with a seat filler and my buddy was 3 days behind doing the same course also with a seat filler. No way to change that "it's too late, the schedule has been already made!"
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11-14-2012, 08:29 AM
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From what I've seen out of King Richard, he likes all the old, used, cheap airframes he can get. I guess since we train at home on our own dime most of the time, it doesn't cost him as much to train us as it did in the "before time", but still, would think the spare parts night mare alone would make him want to slim down the fleet types to as few as possible.
As for the parts they are so cheap we have been buying the SAS MD82 fleet for parts, so other than storage and inventory cost we are set...
I'd like to see shiny airplanes too, but before that I'd like to see job security, career advancement, QOL and pay addressed...
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11-14-2012, 08:29 AM
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I've tried the A-B method and the NOV-DEC method for NYC7ERB. Each failed once and each worked once. Now if I could only get DTW, so Santa knows where my presents are going.
11-14-2012, 08:34 AM
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