Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
01-30-2013, 06:04 AM
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Not to worry, in 24 months when the excess bodies have been drained from the system, all reserves (jr and sr) will be flying their tails off. Before someone comes on here and says I just have a bad attitude my response is, wait and see. The manning with new work rules and computer formula tweaking will take effect. Its a matter of time.
I hope I am wrong and Sailing will say I am but lets get feedback from the average reserve and line pilot in 24 months. It's one thing to hear a dozen reasons why you SHOULD be increasing your quality of life and quite another when you are actually living the new reality.
I hope I am wrong and Sailing will say I am but lets get feedback from the average reserve and line pilot in 24 months. It's one thing to hear a dozen reasons why you SHOULD be increasing your quality of life and quite another when you are actually living the new reality.
Reserves can't fly their tails off all year long. The staffing formula doesn't allow it.
01-30-2013, 06:13 AM
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Easiest way is to pay $50 to Flightline and have them send you an expense report. It uses the max you can deduct for each meal without having receipts. It's also a flight log etc. I've gotten it since they started and, for $50 its soooooo worth it. They also say if you don't save at least $50 they will give you your money back.
Manually via DBMS, I have no idea. Sorry
Denny
Manually via DBMS, I have no idea. Sorry
Denny
Just went to the site and was wondering what they are asking for here?
"Please enter your FDS access password or any EasyBid activation code."
01-30-2013, 06:34 AM
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Not to worry, in 24 months when the excess bodies have been drained from the system, all reserves (jr and sr) will be flying their tails off. Before someone comes on here and says I just have a bad attitude my response is, wait and see. The manning with new work rules and computer formula tweaking will take effect. Its a matter of time.
I hope I am wrong and Sailing will say I am but lets get feedback from the average reserve and line pilot in 24 months. It's one thing to hear a dozen reasons why you SHOULD be increasing your quality of life and quite another when you are actually living the new reality.
I hope I am wrong and Sailing will say I am but lets get feedback from the average reserve and line pilot in 24 months. It's one thing to hear a dozen reasons why you SHOULD be increasing your quality of life and quite another when you are actually living the new reality.
Jack,
I think you are mostly correct. Reserves will be flying their tails off in the high volume (Summer/spring break) months, but mostly sitting on their tails during the down times.
One of the main themes of our new contract was increasing the ability of the company to work the heavy months with fewer guys - this will result in what you say for the summer months but I dont think it will be too bad in the off months.
Due to this it only makes sense for the company to try to push most of the training and IOEs to the off months which may increase pilot utilization somewhat in the off months. But once we start hiring and doing a lot of IOEs hopefully being on reserve for over a year will only be for the guys that want to fly reserve.
Scoop
01-30-2013, 06:37 AM
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Jack,
I think you are mostly correct. Reserves will be flying their tails off in the high volume (Summer/spring break) months, but mostly sitting on their tails during the down times.
One of the main themes of our new contract was increasing the ability of the company to work the heavy months with fewer guys - this will result in what you say for the summer months but I dont think it will be too bad in the off months.
Due to this it only makes sense for the company to try to push most of the training and IOEs to the off months which may increase pilot utilization somewhat in the off months. But once we start hiring and doing a lot of IOEs hopefully being on reserve for over a year will only be for the guys that want to fly reserve.
Scoop
I think you are mostly correct. Reserves will be flying their tails off in the high volume (Summer/spring break) months, but mostly sitting on their tails during the down times.
One of the main themes of our new contract was increasing the ability of the company to work the heavy months with fewer guys - this will result in what you say for the summer months but I dont think it will be too bad in the off months.
Due to this it only makes sense for the company to try to push most of the training and IOEs to the off months which may increase pilot utilization somewhat in the off months. But once we start hiring and doing a lot of IOEs hopefully being on reserve for over a year will only be for the guys that want to fly reserve.
Scoop
01-30-2013, 06:43 AM
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Jack,
I think you are mostly correct. Reserves will be flying their tails off in the high volume (Summer/spring break) months, but mostly sitting on their tails during the down times.
One of the main themes of our new contract was increasing the ability of the company to work the heavy months with fewer guys - this will result in what you say for the summer months but I dont think it will be too bad in the off months.
Scoop
I think you are mostly correct. Reserves will be flying their tails off in the high volume (Summer/spring break) months, but mostly sitting on their tails during the down times.
One of the main themes of our new contract was increasing the ability of the company to work the heavy months with fewer guys - this will result in what you say for the summer months but I dont think it will be too bad in the off months.
Scoop
I mean looking at February on my category, the lowly 88B category, they hacked off 20% of the reserves from January so the top 30% on reserve are 2001 hires or earlier. Middle 35%+ are 2007 hires, last 35% or so are 2008 and after hires. I bet the middle 35% (30%-65%) did not think they'd be in the middle because a year ago they were top 5%.
I bet if they get more and more 0 RAW 0 hours kind of guys then they know, hey, we're overstaffed on reserve, let's fix that.
01-30-2013, 06:50 AM
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01-30-2013, 06:53 AM
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So who is better off? The junior lineholders flying around 70 block hours of the worst possible trips for 70 hours of pay, or the junior reserve flying 30-50 block hours for 72 hours of pay? I understand the reserve guys also sit S/C, but my point is that it sucks to be junior. When I was a junior reserve guy I would occasionally get a very good trip but as a junior lineholder never got anything but crap, 100% pure leftover crap.
I am all in favor for improving the system but want to keep seniority in the equation. I think the system can definitley be tweaked, but overall think it is pretty good.
I think we are all frustrated with the stagnation
- I am coming up on 14 years and am still a NB FO. I am hoping once the movement starts we will all feel a lot better about our situation.Scoop
01-30-2013, 06:58 AM
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Is the site you are referencing?Flightline - Expense Reports
Just went to the site and was wondering what they are asking for here?
"Please enter your FDS access password or any EasyBid activation code."
Just went to the site and was wondering what they are asking for here?
"Please enter your FDS access password or any EasyBid activation code."
01-30-2013, 07:21 AM
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What time of day do they normally assign short calls for tomorrow?
01-30-2013, 07:25 AM
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Normally no later than 1500 mecca time, but if a need arises they will add SC to schedules after that and then call to notify you of it. The beauty is you don't have to answer your phone or check messages until 0000 so the earliest they could assign you SC would be 1200.
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