Anyone been URPed lately at Airtran?

[TV9Driver]

i think all of the goodwill was used up LAST Christmas. I don't think any pilots except for a few senior ones that have a positive opinion of our company right now.

 

[fmr727drvr]

i think all of the goodwill was used up LAST Christmas. I don't think any pilots except for a few senior ones that have a positive opinion of our company right now.

Thats what I thought based on most of my FO's opinions, but check out the thread titled Airtran? It seems most everybody had a generally positive thing to say about working here. Maybe they don't want to scare off any talent out there and wind up with some 500 hour wonders.

 

[Sun Devil 2000]

Had 92 hours of pay in December and begged scheduling to URP me the last two days. I was told no. January is going to be a fun month for reserves since there is no open time after this week and the low credit lines.

 

[tubelcane]

I sat reserve as a fo from Nov 2005 to Mar 2006 and wasnt urp'd once. Now the captains in my crashpad at the time it was a regular thing for them. Maybe things have changed in the last few years.

 

[Kharma Police]

Had 92 hours of pay in December and begged scheduling to URP me the last two days. I was told no. January is going to be a fun month for reserves since there is no open time after this week and the low credit lines.

Does that mean guys on reserve will be home more?

 

[Sun Devil 2000]

Does that mean guys on reserve will be home more?

Well I don't live in ATL so the answer for me is no, I won't be at home instead I'll be stuck in my crashpad. For those that live in ATL I would assume that the answer would be yes more time at home.

 

[Lear70]

They can URP you at any time during your rotation, 1, 2, or 3 days in a row.

If you can get home during that time, great, you got a day off at home.

If not, you just got a day off sitting in your crash pad...

Not much fun at all.

 

[Sun Devil 2000]

They can URP you at any time during your rotation, 1, 2, or 3 days in a row.

If you can get home during that time, great, you got a day off at home.

If not, you just got a day off sitting in your crash pad...

Not much fun at all.

True but scheduling must advise you 48 hours prior to removing a RSV period per the contract.

 

[PCL_128]

Does that mean guys on reserve will be home more?

Yep, but I'm already spending tons of time at home anyway. It'd be nicer to get paid for it.

 

[Mertz72]

They've also begun tagging people with ready reserve on their last day, so that you can't get the early release. (i.e. 4am to 6pm reserve gets released at 2pm if they haven't been assigned anything, so scheduling gives you 11am to 5pm ready reserve, and calls it a flight assignment)

 

[maxblast72]

The urping thing has become an issue again since they stopped allowing drops. When they allowing dropping/swapping, they always seemed to be a little short (OK alot short this summer) so urping was never an issue. Now that drops are not allowed and we have cut our total fleetwide hours due to high fuel prices, we are well staffed and occasionally overstaffed which causes JJ (head of scheduling) to grab the URPing stick to reduce reserve costs.

One thing you can do if they URP you a week or two out is put your URP on the tradeboard. If someone has similar days to your urping and would like to be URPed (IE drop the days), the two of you can work a trade so you get the money back (great for guys that live in ATL).

Don't worry spring break/summer will be here soon enough and URPing will be forgotten again for 6 months as we run through these months with the typical Airtran short staffing.