E-SRL and Commuting
04-03-2020, 11:52 AM
#31
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2013
Posts: 315
What was your problem with the SC and what exactly do you expect to have happen by PDR’ing something that’s UPA compliant? Asking out of genuine curiosity, as I’ve been on reserve for the last year doing anywhere from 2-8 SCs per month, every month. It’s the contract between the union and company. I comply.
The issue is assigning them to a pilot when there is absolutely no 757/767 on the days in question out of that base. Make no mistake, I'll continue to go sit them, but it lacks all common sense. CS shouldn't be given short call lines to staff on jets that aren't flying. That's the point of the PDR.
It doesn't matter whether they fix it or not because next month, almost all of us are going to be on reserve. The silo will grow ten to twenty-fold.
04-03-2020, 12:09 PM
#32
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 666
I do plenty of SC's too. My record is 10 in a month.
The issue is assigning them to a pilot when there is absolutely no 757/767 on the days in question out of that base. Make no mistake, I'll continue to go sit them, but it lacks all common sense. CS shouldn't be given short call lines to staff on jets that aren't flying. That's the point of the PDR.
It doesn't matter whether they fix it or not because next month, almost all of us are going to be on reserve. The silo will grow ten to twenty-fold.
The issue is assigning them to a pilot when there is absolutely no 757/767 on the days in question out of that base. Make no mistake, I'll continue to go sit them, but it lacks all common sense. CS shouldn't be given short call lines to staff on jets that aren't flying. That's the point of the PDR.
It doesn't matter whether they fix it or not because next month, almost all of us are going to be on reserve. The silo will grow ten to twenty-fold.
04-03-2020, 12:35 PM
#34
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: guppy CA
Posts: 5,171
I'm slowly stepping away from all of this - I put in for the 4 mo ESRL and will happily unplug from everything for a few months.
04-03-2020, 12:38 PM
#35
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: guppy CA
Posts: 5,171
1) deadheading to another city, and
2) doing ferry flights
in the past.
While nothing may be on the schedule, you never know what crew sked's going to come up with. Someone's been flying those planes to VCV, ROW, and GYR.
04-03-2020, 01:59 PM
#37
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 666
Thanks much. Things are changing so rapidly that one has to check multiple sources several times a day just to stay slightly behind the latest news.
I'm slowly stepping away from all of this - I put in for the 4 mo ESRL and will happily unplug from everything for a few months.
I'm slowly stepping away from all of this - I put in for the 4 mo ESRL and will happily unplug from everything for a few months.
04-03-2020, 02:16 PM
#38
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Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: guppy CA
Posts: 5,171
It sounds like you're better off going with the monthly SRL and flying the line or a reserve line during your vacation month. I wonder if they'll change that rule.
04-03-2020, 02:26 PM
#39
Line Holder
Joined APC: Aug 2018
Posts: 61
At my last carrier we had an option to self-designate "will fly" for reserves to bring themselves to the top of the list for getting an assignment. Maybe we need something like this for the non-commuters who don't mind sitting short call or FSB to let the commuters stay home... not so much a pickup, but a "hey I don't mind doing this" sort of thing...
04-03-2020, 04:20 PM
#40
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Joined APC: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,085
At my last carrier we had an option to self-designate "will fly" for reserves to bring themselves to the top of the list for getting an assignment. Maybe we need something like this for the non-commuters who don't mind sitting short call or FSB to let the commuters stay home... not so much a pickup, but a "hey I don't mind doing this" sort of thing...
