Doug Masters

My dad also worked for Big Blue. I had that same one in 1992. Small world...

maddogmax

I have a question for all you RSV experts. I bid RSV for DEC to ensure I got Xmas off. I had some spill credit plus an OE trip already on my schedule for a total credit of 75:30.
I have some RSV days starting on the 7th. Will I have to be on RSV at all for the rest of the month or am I done? Thanks in advance for your wisdom.

DeadHead

Man it must have taken you all day to upload pictures on that thing.

LeineLodge

Is it your Actual Credit or Projected Credit of 75:30? Projected credit includes your reserve available days and will be reduced pro-rata if you were to personal drop, sick, etc. Actual Credit is actually the hard credit you have on you sked for the month (vacation, CQ, actual trips, etc). You are done for the month of reserve (unless you YS) when your actual credit reaches your category's ALV.

Without looking at it, I don't think you'll be off from the 7th on, unless you have a bunch of vacation credit or something like that.

acl65pilot

Saling;
I did more than call the office. I talked to the person responsible for crafting this language face to face, and then via e-mail at length.

If we were at 0, 0 then 49.5 we would have bigger problems to deal with. Under the terms spelled out in MOU 14, once reaching 49.50 it is considered 50-50 and at that point a new measurement period starts. There is no look back for this scenario. They basically have three years to get there since we started at 47.2 with the addition of AZ. Some purport we could go to 0, 0 then be in compliance and that may true, but unrealistic. The bigger game is we get half of the EASK's available going forward.

What George mentions about there being no bottom end compliance right now is as far as I can tell, and as far as I have been told by those who crafted the language, is true, but not likely. We are in the initial three year measurement period with AZ. We are not even in compliance with the new balance. Once that happens what you state is true.

I may disagree with a new measurement period being down via MOU, but this language and how it is implemented is very complex. It involves the DAL marketing agreements with the other JV carriers and then them with us. What this team did was keep a even percentage of EASK's for our pilots. Yes, the corrective window will not happen for a few years, but the long term gains are significant. We have only seen a down side to the capacity since it was drafted, if there is ever an up side, we will profit handsomely. With the profit and loss of the Bundle 1 flying being shared equally, it gives incentives beyond the language in LOA 16 and MOU 14 to keep the flying as close to equal as possible. Each side gets a few city pairs they can opt out of each year, but as a whole the profit loss is shared, and therefore, the execs want the risk and exposure shared equally.

johnso29

Actually, he's partially correct. If you're going into Golden Days you are automatically released from SC and LC at NOON.

Instead of just saying someone is wrong, you should say why they're wrong. You may actually find out they're right and you're wrong. Clear as mud?

scambo1

I think tht predates Al Gore's invention of the internet.

I remember when the IBM 486 came out with the formflow program (USAF). I really could not see how you could improve a computer from that point. It really was a quantum leap ahead of the 286.

LeineLodge

Additionally I *think* you can call and ask to be released at noon even if you're not going into hard days off. Of course if you're on Long Call and it hits noon they can't really do anything with you anyways.

rvr350

It's saturday morning, would someone post pictures that has more round shape than say, an ibm 386?

Thanks.

scambo1

I'm not a reserve expert, but if your credit for flying is 7530, call scheduling and let them know you'd like to be removed from reserve obligations.

They may do this automatically these days, but I dont think so.