Originally Posted by JayBee

thanks again for previous answers. its not an easy decision to give up earned seniority and start over at another airline. I don't think it will be all sunshine and roses at 9E but the following questions might give some more insight...

when does pay start at 9E ? door closed or wheel movement ?

do you need to carefully audit your paycheck every pay period ?

do you need to submit pay claims for overtime, holiday, etc etc ?

if you find an error in pay beyond XX days time are you forever screwed out of that pay ?

never used PBS how is it overall for bottom middle and top 1/3 ? is it like I've heard top 1/3 gets 18 days off a month and 90 credit and bottom 2/3 gets 11 days off and 80 hours credit ?

trips commutable? avg day credit ? ya'll have min day or trip/duty rigs ?

what mechanisms are in place if you want to trade out of a trip or just plain drop a trip? (we have schedule adjustment, seniority based and first come first serve...) how often are you able to actually trade (need green days I assume?)?

reading through the last few pages doesn't seem hotels/schedulers are much better

appreciate any feed back, like said its not an easy decision to give up earned seniority...

Originally Posted by TalkTurkey

So frustrating. I am the only one that gave no effs. Delayed deadhead, which caused a misconnect so I just booked it home and took my chances. To now, I still have no notifications or schedule modifications and that trip ended yesterday. All I care is that rainmaker is accurate and it is.

Originally Posted by KelvinHelmholtz

They need to hire more schedulers. I was on hold over 2 hours and couldn’t reach anyone. After an hour 45 someone picked up and said please hold. I would have stayed on the line but I had to fly

Originally Posted by preflight

There are so many call centers that after informing you the number of callers ahead and estimated wait time, offer you an opportunity to be called back based on your queue position. It does not seem like a stretch to have them turn on such a feature for more than 5 in queue or wait time > 30 min...

You get a call back instead of walking around with speaker on or phone glued to your ear and the call-taker does not see any difference since the software handles the callback when you are the next in line for service!

Just say'in!

Originally Posted by Avroman

Just like after the bankruptcy exodus or competitor airline hiring gimmicks, things only change when it hits them in the bottom line. The more we go out of our way making up for the problems of scheduling the less will get fixed... Don't be stupid, don't sabotage things that otherwise wouldn't fall apart, but don't bail out the other department's failings... I assure you that years of experience shows they will throw flight ops under the bus to cover their own "6". And that goes for dispatch, inflight, training, ground ops, tech ops, DCI, Delta.... you get the idea... Do your job according to what the written guidance says (get it in writing or it's as good as rotten cheese) and you should be covered 99.99% of the time. (there's always an exception it seems in life so, yea)

Originally Posted by slowyourroll

Just to clarify. Its 4 hours per duty period not day. Years ago we had trips with 3 duty periods in 2 calendar days. 12 hrs pay minimum.

Originally Posted by Baradium

It's duty period AND day. As in multiple duty periods gets multiple min days, but a day without flying (32 hr layver) gets a min day as well.