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Online booking is key. In the absence of online booking, a stay at home wife is a pretty good substitute.....
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RUMOR ALERT!
They're gonna give the FAs the 10 days and the call-in-honest.
As a reward for being non-union.
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Heyas,
10.5 days gives you peace of mind. You book it, and you're done. It also gives you time to make other plans. If the FAA (or now a LCA...grrrr) bounces you from the JS, you have ample time to make other plans.
On closer inspection, the split going to/from work is equally retarded. At first blush, it SEEMS like a good idea, but really:
1) If you are going TO work, you're not going to be travelling FROM a base. The only people you're really competing with are those also going to work. The flow is NATURALLY from outstation to base.
2) If you are going home, you're not going to be travelling TO a base. Same as above...you're just competing with people going home. It doesn't matter when the deadline is because the flow is from base to outstation.
All it does is complicate the lives of pilots trying to go home, because it virtually guarantees that you'll be working when the window home opens.
There is the limited case of people travelling base to base, but we had that at NWA, and it was no more an issue than any other heavily travelled city-pair.
This is just another way of the company justifying the lack of a viable call in honest policy.
As for JS booking programs, I would argue that folks who poo poo it are the same who don't want to take the time to understand PBS. But at least it's available to everyone equally. There's a guy on the webboard who says it's our fault that we're not married and have our wives trained to book the jumpseat for us
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10.5 days gives you peace of mind. You book it, and you're done. It also gives you time to make other plans. If the FAA (or now a LCA...grrrr) bounces you from the JS, you have ample time to make other plans.
On closer inspection, the split going to/from work is equally retarded. At first blush, it SEEMS like a good idea, but really:
1) If you are going TO work, you're not going to be travelling FROM a base. The only people you're really competing with are those also going to work. The flow is NATURALLY from outstation to base.
2) If you are going home, you're not going to be travelling TO a base. Same as above...you're just competing with people going home. It doesn't matter when the deadline is because the flow is from base to outstation.
All it does is complicate the lives of pilots trying to go home, because it virtually guarantees that you'll be working when the window home opens.
There is the limited case of people travelling base to base, but we had that at NWA, and it was no more an issue than any other heavily travelled city-pair.
This is just another way of the company justifying the lack of a viable call in honest policy.
As for JS booking programs, I would argue that folks who poo poo it are the same who don't want to take the time to understand PBS. But at least it's available to everyone equally. There's a guy on the webboard who says it's our fault that we're not married and have our wives trained to book the jumpseat for us
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There are a number of issues that should be addressed as far as jumpseats are concerned. 1) On line booking capability. (hopefully coming in the spring). 2) Jumpseats on all RJ flights counted in the operating weight (no getting bumped due to weight restrictions.) 3) Some sort of priority system for Delta pilots on Delta commuter flights. As more and more stations are seeing mainline a/c being replaced by RJ's. We need a way to get on these aircraft to get to work and back home.
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But the online system would be nice to add to the old tool bag for commuting.
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On closer inspection, the split going to/from work is equally retarded. At first blush, it SEEMS like a good idea, but really:
1) If you are going TO work, you're not going to be travelling FROM a base. The only people you're really competing with are those also going to work. The flow is NATURALLY from outstation to base.
2) If you are going home, you're not going to be travelling TO a base. Same as above...you're just competing with people going home. It doesn't matter when the deadline is because the flow is from base to outstation.
1) If you are going TO work, you're not going to be travelling FROM a base. The only people you're really competing with are those also going to work. The flow is NATURALLY from outstation to base.
2) If you are going home, you're not going to be travelling TO a base. Same as above...you're just competing with people going home. It doesn't matter when the deadline is because the flow is from base to outstation.
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At the risk of dwelling on the past, my last gig allowed personal, and business jumpseat booking on-line, fourteen days in advance.
It cost the company nothing, gave them some good-will, and we even allowed off-line booking ahead of time.
It helped everyone......what's the drama ? OK Slow, what's the downside to the company ? I must be missing it.
It cost the company nothing, gave them some good-will, and we even allowed off-line booking ahead of time.
It helped everyone......what's the drama ? OK Slow, what's the downside to the company ? I must be missing it.
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