JTwift

Global reserve needs to die.

Mitch Rapp

Any type of “rollable day off” or “flexible day off” needs to die.

Chowdah

Given that pilots are a finite supply at the moment, we do not have the option to simply add bodies at will. Taking away, rollable days off while obviously has quality of life benefits for our reserves, would be a giant manpower negative move… This would force the company to take the December (reserve staffing) approach for most of the year, by pushing on the G line and keeping more pilots on reserve with much higher line values for line holders. I’m not saying there’s right answer, but it’s a zero sum game.

The only reserve rules that matter to the company, are those for narrowbody captains. They can put new hires into widebody reserve, and at this point, there is no shortage of people ready to bid widebody captain reserve. So give him the companies desire to grow aggressively, and the fact that there is a limited supply of pilots in the ecosystem right now, if you reduce a reserve’s obligation to the company, thus increasing their quality of life, you are going to make life more miserable for most line holders. The fact that people come on here and pretend this isn’t the reality is a little silly.

December was a clear example that it’s a zero sum game. Pick your poison.

dingdong

Pilots who previously worked at the regionals are quite familiar with being based at non-hub airports. I’m curious if it will follow the same model of first flight out, last flight back => non-commutable trips.

Swakid8

12 Ha Ha ha

Swakid8

Most likely, I could see MCO trips being structured this way. The other possibility is commutable trips on one end only. LAS flying might be a bit different with more red eyes….l

Brickfire

The base is being established solely for people who don’t want to commute

UALinIAH

In the town hall they came right out and said expect the trips out of LAS and MCO to be mostly 3-4 days and it would be MCO/LAS-HUB then normal hub flying ending with a leg back to MCO/LAS. Expanded more on LAS and said expect there to be substantial all nighter flying. Basically paid commuting for locals with the bonus of potentially poaching even more JB/Spirit people who don’t want to commute.

Nucflash

And have FL or PHX/LAS people think twice about going to AA or SWA….

list

We need to raise our daily guaranty over 5 hours a day. That is the only way to make non productive NB flying worth leaving the WB for. Make a 4 day guaranty 22 hours and it might be worth the upgrade.