TeddyKGB

LOL, that will teach me to post after drinking a couple Stone IPA's. Thanks for the clarification Howgozit!! I had no idea. So if you are given a yellow slip on your x days does that increase your reserve guarantee and/or do they repay you the x days later in the month. There has to be some incentive for coming into fly on your x days I would hope.

acl65pilot

Straight Pay and credit towards your monthly total. Pay does not go above guarantee like a GS. Days OFF are lost.

TeddyKGB

Then why bother?

JobHopper

More pay, but ONLY if you are going to break guarantee. If you wind up below guarantee after YSing, all you did was give up your days off. It only made sense to me the last few days of the month, and even then it didn't make sense.

Sink r8

Oh, Lawhwd, please don't let them take way our genteel southern corporate culture!

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upndsky

A few reasons:

1) You want to fly as much as possible because you need the money and don't care about days off.

2) You want to get to the ALV as quick as possible so you'll show full the rest of the month. This, in essence, "restores" your X days.

3) Similarly, you're trying to get into a higher reserve bracket quickly, with the hopes that they won't use you because there's a bunch of guys still in the lower bracket that would get called first. This is a little bit more of gamble and depends on your seniority and how much reserve coverage there is.

4) If you're a commuter, there may be a commutable trip that starts on your last X-day vs. a non-commutable trip that starts on your first reserve day. Either way, you're having to come in on the same day but this way you save a hotel room or a night at the crash pad.

I've never done it, but it offers another way to try to control your schedule a little bit.

Sink r8

I agree, and I think the bigger issue is German domination of European politics, and their insistance on putting the screws to countries that wanted to engage in significant deficit-spending during a recession (the way we do, with great enthusiasm). Greece is a special case, because they really don't seem to have any cerdible accounting, but countries like France and Holland had to take a softer stance towards growth. They didn't, now their governments are toast.

LivingTheDream

FWIW, I told my ATL rep that my four main items were: Scope, Pay, Sick leave, and Min calendar day for all, (reg & res). He told me, three days ago, he did not expect that we are getting a Min calendar day. I told him I needed all four items as a Min. Therefore, if true about no Min calendar day, a no vote for me.

LeineLodge

It doesn't matter to me what they call it, but there needs to be some sort of cleanup to our scheduling/pay rules. Specifically:

1. The end of 10:30 3-days
2. Reserves crediting less on the same rotation than REG pilots - this is CRITICAL if the aforementioned ALV increases are to be offset.


Both of these basically boil down to a minimum day. 2:00/min just doesn't cut it. Still reserving my opinion for a final (complete) product, as quite a few things still need to be addressed.

ExAF

Bump...I'm in the same boat. Not really targeting Rolling Thunder, but wondering benefits of bidding block vs reserve. How does one maximize pay and time off in this situation? Anyone have any suggestions?.....Please?......Pretty Please?