How easy is it to drop Reserve Days/Trips
05-04-2018, 06:34 PM
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Questions for relatively new/ish pilots:
In general how easy is it to drop Reserve days (1-7 days) and then pick up a 4 day (as an example) in open time that works better for your schedule? Or drop a couple of day trips that don't work for your schedule? Pay being secondary...
Also, what is the minimum hours that a pilot HAS to work in a month in order to keep benefits?
TIA
In general how easy is it to drop Reserve days (1-7 days) and then pick up a 4 day (as an example) in open time that works better for your schedule? Or drop a couple of day trips that don't work for your schedule? Pay being secondary...
Also, what is the minimum hours that a pilot HAS to work in a month in order to keep benefits?
TIA
Availability for these varies by location and time of year, but are much more available from Sep - May than Jun-Aug. As an example, there were only full month leaves offered for June and only for :
SFO LAX 787 CA
DEN IAH ORD 756 CA
SFO 787 FO
DEN 320 FO
CLE 737 FO
but for last Feb there were
Full month only:
EWR 777 CA
LAX, EWR 756 CA
SFO, LAX, DEN, IAH, ORD, DCA, EWR 320 CA
ORD, CLE, EWR 737 CA
IAH 756 FO
SFO, LAX, IAH, ORD, DCA, EWR 320 FO
GUM, SFO, LAX, DEN 737 FO
Partial and Full month:
SFO 777 CA
SFO, ORD, DCA 756 CA
SFO, LAX, DEN, IAH, DCA 737 CA
SFO 787 FO
ORD, DCA, EWR 777 FO
LAX, ORD, DCA, EWR 756 FO
DEN 320 FO
IAH, ORD, CLE, DCA, EWR 737 FO
05-04-2018, 07:12 PM
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Not sure if you’re asking this, but a reserve cannot pick up open time on days off. They can only pick up a trip on reserve days, and even then there are factors like lineholders first crack, FIFO, silo match.
05-06-2018, 10:38 AM
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05-06-2018, 11:36 AM
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05-25-2018, 09:30 PM
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Just to clarify, you can drop reserve days. I have done it often. Each day drops your MPG (of course). There are some restrictions that aren’t written anywhere but I’ve learned after doing it occasionally since 2013.
- the day has to be plus on reserve coverage, obviously
- there can’t be any “orphan” reserve days (a single reserve day with a day off on either side)
- I’ve found the best way to start the conversation is something like “I’d like to personal drop without pay some reserve days, is day x over coverage?, day y?” and so on. They used to be confused but the last two times i’ve done it they’ve jumped right in and said which days do you want. Last time they went so far as to move some days around in order to make dropping a day doable.
Dropped four days just last December. It shows up on the master schedule as “PRDP” (personal drop). I tried to post a screenshot but couldn’t get past the attachments parameters.
- the day has to be plus on reserve coverage, obviously
- there can’t be any “orphan” reserve days (a single reserve day with a day off on either side)
- I’ve found the best way to start the conversation is something like “I’d like to personal drop without pay some reserve days, is day x over coverage?, day y?” and so on. They used to be confused but the last two times i’ve done it they’ve jumped right in and said which days do you want. Last time they went so far as to move some days around in order to make dropping a day doable.
Dropped four days just last December. It shows up on the master schedule as “PRDP” (personal drop). I tried to post a screenshot but couldn’t get past the attachments parameters.
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