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#8211
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Don't bother with extra trips on reserve ..they go toward your guarantee and not above. When you get close to 75 or your the highest credit guy in a group they're going to back you off unless your their only choice. When you do that on your day off you become very cheap labor...$2 per hour for per diem is pretty much all they're paying for you
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#8212
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Don't bother with extra trips on reserve ..they go toward your guarantee and not above. When you get close to 75 or your the highest credit guy in a group they're going to back you off unless your their only choice. When you do that on your day off you become very cheap labor...$2 per hour for per diem is pretty much all they're paying for you
#8213
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#8214
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#8215
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Never ever got a call on a VDA day yet. I'm starting to think it's a myth. Does feel good putting the request in though.
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Be careful here reserves. If you go into the regular open time pot on FLICA and pick up a trip on your day off you will be working for free. You need to be awarded a trip on your day off via aggressive pick up. This is the menu in flica called, "Pilot RSV open time bid east coast". From what I've been told you are rarely awarded a trip on your day off.
#8217
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Be careful here reserves. If you go into the regular open time pot on FLICA and pick up a trip on your day off you will be working for free. You need to be awarded a trip on your day off via aggressive pick up. This is the menu in flica called, "Pilot RSV open time bid east coast". From what I've been told you are rarely awarded a trip on your day off.
#8219
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Sure, just not as much around this time or any other busy season. We tend to run a thin staffing operation. During the busier times the line values are at the higher end so line holders will have higher credit and be working more and also allowing for a larger number of reserves available. Plus you have to remember you are covering the guys with summer vacation blocks which are cleaned out. I'm Boston and with the company about 2yrs but JFK will be similar. I bid commutable and not a whole lot else, this month I have 90 hours and 13 days off and thats pretty common over the summer. During the off peak the line values go down and plenty of months I have 15-16 days off.
If staffing is available remember you can PTO or UTO (unpaid) some of the shorter, inefficient day or two day trips and get some more days off. I usually UTO them, if its a 10 hr trip I'll UTO it and then cover what I lost with selling them back the PTO which is at time and a half. So covering the 10 hours of the pay I lost with the UTO will break even selling them back about 7 hours and you keep the 3 that they would have deducted if you PTO it.
If staffing is available remember you can PTO or UTO (unpaid) some of the shorter, inefficient day or two day trips and get some more days off. I usually UTO them, if its a 10 hr trip I'll UTO it and then cover what I lost with selling them back the PTO which is at time and a half. So covering the 10 hours of the pay I lost with the UTO will break even selling them back about 7 hours and you keep the 3 that they would have deducted if you PTO it.
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