Wiskey Driver

Ok if upgrades at VA are based on merit and not seniority how are trips done. Do they just assign you trips or you look at a board and say that's the one I want and it's first come first serve or what????

The merit system sounds like the F'ed up system to me!! I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time, ok I lied yes it would!

WD.

mike734

If scheduling is anything like the 3 different European airlines I've worked for, the schedules are printed several weeks in advance and the crews move up the list week by week. So you know what you are doing next week because the guy above you on the list is doing that same thing this week. Reserve days are placed in from time to time. You might have 3 reserve days per month. Everyone does reserve.

It works nicely if the schedules are not arduous. There were provisions for trip trades and such but rarely approved. I and the other contract pilots, at one airline in particular, got so frustrated with the schedules that we pretty much traded on our own. They needed us contract guys so we could get away with it.

I like the idea of everyone standing some reserve although I know that could never fly over here. Seniority has it's merits but it should not be the "be all, end all."