brakechatter

A fun guy to fly and shoot with. Hopefully, he will come over to the AB, but I',m not holding my breath. Will probably have to go to him.

Much better guy than ACL.

whitt767

The B-10. Fits Ipad, Lunch, Laptop, Snacks, Headset, H2O bottle in side pocket, etc. I have a real thin Sony Viao with 13 in screen (like a Macbook Air, but better). Can't go wrong.

Rudder

Trying to come back a day early from Asia so need to deviate from a tail end DH and made my res thru Company Business and it only gives me an option for a coach seat. I did the same thing coming over here (deviated on the front end) and it gave me the option to choose a Business Class seat. Do not get it and cannot get the live contract to download because of where I am at. Any ideas?

fisherpilot

Oh, ive heard....... I'm just not so sure those wont be replacement jets and winter 2014 doesnt turn into 2016/2017. Time will tell. I'm cautiously optimistic. If you guys are short now I'm assuming you will be really short come this summer. But, we all know what happens when you "ass-u-me"

cni187

Record day on the ER in NY on the B side. No one called in sick or dropped a trip for Saturday. Nothing was covered except PCS white slips and swaps. We definitely need to hire.

forgot to bid

Imagine if the weather had been bad?

A few months ago I noticed they lopped off reserves by 20 or so pilots or about 20% of the reserves since we tended to average around 100-110 pilots. So I decided to take a little look and what I found is the number of pilots on reserve is mostly all over the place and no discernible patterns related to say the ALV.

First, the number of lucky pilots in ATL88B has grown from around 490 in JAN12 to 530 today. The fewest pilots on reserve in terms of numbers was 72 in MAR12 and the highest was 115 in OCT12.

As a percentage of pilots on RES vs REG, we average 18.1%. The number on reserve does not seem to correlate with the ALV as a low 72 hour ALV has produced the highest percentile on reserve, JAN12 23%, and the lowest, 14.7% in MAR12. If the ALV climbed above 76 hours the percentage on reserve still seemed to be all over the place from the mid 16% range to the 20.4% range. So ALV doesn't seem to matter much.

But when you just look at the totals from JAN12 to MAY13, you do notice something. We went from 95 pilots on reserve from JAN12-JAN13 to an average of 85 for FEB13-MAY13. The % on reserve during that time went from 18.8% in JAN12-JAN13 to 16.1% in FEB13-MAY13. Four of the highest six months of total number of reserves occurred in OCT12-JAN13 and during that time we average in the 20-22% range of reserves or 104-115 pilots. Now we average 15.4-16.4% and 82-87 pilots on reserve from FEB13-MAY13.

I'm going to make an assumption here. We figured out how to get a month off: bid weekends off RES. Have fun, enjoy the spoils of seniority and the protection of the bucket system. Then we end up having senior RES pilots fly 0 hours, have 0 credit and 0 SCs. Great. But it doesn't seem to have gone unnoticed.

The company seems to have slashed reserves. Obviously, we didn't need them all if guys weren't flying ever. So now I see the guys in the 8000 range seniority numbers sitting 88B not at #40 on the long call list but #10 on long call and this is at the beginning of the month and not just the end when everyone moved to buckets 2, 3 and 4. This is their placement in Bucket 1.

Weekends have always been min staffed but now by the time the trips roll around, sick calls, weather, etc, there ain't enough. So my guess is you're going to see more on reserve in June than now, instead of 16.4% maybe 18% but probably not 20-22%.

/assuming

Ferd149

Rudder,

You need to do the back end DH in icrew>NRSA>jumpseat/deadhead. Back end deviation is on the bottom. Try that, should then allow ya to get the seat then. If not, wait till 24 hours prior to departure. Anyway, that's what the instructions say and it has worked for me.

Don't forget to cnx the other company biz listing.

Ferd

forgot to bid

sailingfun

It could be something as simple as we have been overstaffed since 2009. The contract makes a furlough very difficult for the company so they carry the surplus in the lowest paid categories. That surplus is now almost gone so fewer reserves.

acl65pilot

Hey now. You even had to edit it to rag on me. What a nice guy.