forgot to bid

I'd love to take credit. But I'm just a lowly jet guy flying ASA Brasilia routes to northern Florida, eastern Mississippi and eastern Tennessee.

That to me sounds like the work of Monsieur Ferd. He flies a french plane to french destinations. And now it's painfully obviously I totally missed the boat not reading this....



but who knew you still needed to know freaking French?

forgot to bid

So went to see Unbroken. It was okay. Don't mind sending a few dollars to hollywood for that movie but it was kind of flat at the end. I guess. Maybe if you know the subject you just expected more.

Anyways. There was a trailer for that 50 Shades of Grey. So that was a book. Can kids do book reports on that? Kind of looked somewhat scary imho.

sailingfun

At one time GS's went in seniority order for every one. Then we limited them to 2 per pilot in seniority. In the late 90's we switched it to one. This is a better system then unlimited. Perhaps we could change it to after 15 hours of GS flying you go to the bottom of the list.
What we really should do is switch them back to double credit no pay and bring back bow wave. Delta would have to hire 2000 pilots over night!

MikeF16

In regard to reserve pay, are we payed the ALV-2 for our plane/city combination, or just the jet itself? For example, ALV - 2 in NYC 717 means we're getting the contact mandated minimum, but if you average NYC, DTW, and ATL ALVs then the amount will probably be higher.

Thanks!

LivingTheDream

Too bad, so sad.

I specifically asked the then head of skeds, some 10 years ago, while in charm school, why all ws/gs/ia can't be a proffer... you are always going to get someone to take the trip for double pay... even on Xmas.

Then everyone would pick up the phone on the first ring... one call, then move on... everyone wins.

His response was: "you pilots want everything your way". This was in front of the entire charm school class.

I tried to explain that a ws/gs/ia is not reserve and the "everyone wins" part (including his schedulers). Also, if the company treated us like adults, we would act like adults, (instead of hiding like 10yo school boys), but he wanted no part of that.

Further, there is no way to put in a specific slip to cover all the changing contingencies that occur in one's life.

Therefore, I'll keep my blanket slips in for the month, thank you very much.

LivingTheDream

If I want a gs when I'm flying, I call skeds before I leave and tell them I will accept any gs during my flight. They will put a note on your sked and you will get the gs if it's yours.

sailingfun

ALV is by aircraft not base. The company would love to switch to a base by base system so beware on the next contract.

sailingfun

So your goal for putting in blanket white slips or at least not tailoring them to something close to what you would fly is to increase crew schedulers workload and mess up your fellow pilots who might have wanted the trip but can't make the report by the time they wade through the make work crowd?
I also put in blanket slips but I do try to tailor them to what I want. I have declined many GS's after answering the phone and not once has scheduling demanded I fly the flight. Usually I get a response like "thank you for answering I will move on." I find that if you treat them like adults they return the favor with perhaps two exceptions.
I once flew often with a real gem of a CA who called the flight attendants every 30 minutes and demanded they bring him something. As soon as they left the cockpit he would toss the item in the garbage. He thought it was fun to increase their workload.

forgot to bid

The training department would crumble. 2000 extra pilots plus every pilot making a jump to a higher paying category because now they're more senior in it and probably get more per given seniority. So you're way more senior.



It would be fun times for sure.

LivingTheDream

SF,

I've met you a couple of times... seem like a good guy... but I swear I shake my head at some of the things you say.

Don't know where you came up with any of the above. You may want to re-read my post.

As I heavily implied, of course I put qualifiers in... just impossible to account for every possible contingency.

As far as turning down gs's on the phone... either they know your SF or you've never been involved in a very short staffed situation (i.e., no one else with gs for that trip).

And I do treat every one with respect, like adults... but definitely have not always received the same back in kind... except in Japan!

Also, just to be clear, you favor a system that is completely skewed to the company? I.e., one answers the phone and sked may or may not allow you to pass on the gs out of the kindness of their hearts?... because that sure is not contractual... and it sure has not worked in my favor in the past.