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One no/low cost improvement that would greatly enhance commuter's QOL is no short call on the first day. 18 days of reserve turns into 20-22 when you add the commute to 0500 short call for the first day of reserve. Maybe even make it optional for the guys who live in base.
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One no/low cost improvement that would greatly enhance commuter's QOL is no short call on the first day. 18 days of reserve turns into 20-22 when you add the commute to 0500 short call for the first day of reserve. Maybe even make it optional for the guys who live in base.
Ooo wee. Let me go change my AE bid!
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One no/low cost improvement that would greatly enhance commuter's QOL is no short call on the first day. 18 days of reserve turns into 20-22 when you add the commute to 0500 short call for the first day of reserve. Maybe even make it optional for the guys who live in base.
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In the next contract, we expect to add more money into our total compensation, but eventually that increase in total compensation will be a finite amount. If we spend a bunch of that money on making reserve commuter friendly, then there will be a lot less to add to pay rates, vacation, retirement or anything else you want. That is where the pilot group and by proxy the MEC will have to make hard choices.
Bad old NWA where we fought over everything with management came to that conclusion and we had better JS as policy and Call-In Honest as a side letter (?) with neither costing us anything somewhere else.
With as often as I have heard that we work better with DAL management than the old NWA, you think this would be an easy fix, however reading the comments here I think the attitude of some of our own pilots is a bigger impediment to improved commuting policies than management.
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I believe commuting will become a necessity for many after this AE. Some may say it is still by choice but there are circumstances that could and do make it a necessity rather than a choice.......
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I'm just sayin.....
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