NWA320pilot

I believe that this based on you position and base. Basically you cannot have more groups of days off, max on, or max off than allowed. The exact information for your category can be found in that months bid package.

ranger3484

If you look in the bid package for your category it shows what the reserve grouping requirements are. Usually they don't change much. Looking in August for the 7ER the reserve requirments are min of 4 days On, Max of 99 days on (not sure how you could possibly do this), and a max of 4 reserve blocks. The company doesn't want you to change your schedule to multiple 1 on, 1 off and never be useful.

PilotFrog

But of course PCS is allowed to give you useless one day off. We aren't allowed to bid it, but damn if it doesn't get put on my schedule.

Columbia

Not unless they lease the assets, ala AMR.

DAL 88 Driver

Did you get that smell of burning rubber right after rotation?

TeddyKGB

Thanks for the insight guys. I'll check that out. Still learning

Pineapple Guy

Nope - capital leases are treated just like purchases, and the majority of aircraft leases are capital, not operating.

maddogmax

Do you have to use a CD to do quarterly CQ or can you download it?

LeineLodge

I downloaded it from the flight ops page under the Quarterly CQ button and it worked fine. I've got a netbook with no CD drive, so I didn't have much choice.

I put it on a thumbdrive and the total size unzipped was about 230MB. Sorta felt like I was getting paid appropriately for it, as I did it on a DH last week

gloopy

Although scope should not be for sale and in fact significant scope recapture at all levels should be on our non negotiable will strike like a cobra if necessary list, I'll indulge that notion for a moment.

Even if someone is that stupid, if would be easy to educate them by pointing out SWA pay with and because of their scope. If management wants to "give us a huge raise" for more 70 seaters, they first have to bring all our narrowbodies to SWA rates, widebodies buffed up proportionately, then add in at least some additional significant additional percentage to account for the massive additional per pilot revenue we produce, and THEN AND ONLY THEN can they even attempt to tack on their ridiculous bribe for scope relief on top of that.

That would put the widebodies at around 400+/hr or so, with pretty much every FO close to 200K a year. Thats in addition to significant work rule improvements and massive, earth shattering reserve and vacation improvements.

Oh and Dear Negotiating Committee.....5% per year is not a raise at all. It is barely treading water in a good year and most years with real inclusive inflation like we are experiencing, it is a pay cut. Therefore, that amount will BE BACKED OUT of any and all claims of "XX% raise" because we are not sound byte stoopid enough to fall for that (anymore).

5% per year for 5 years IS NOT A 25% RAISE, IT IS A NET PAY CUT.