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sunlitpath
Very Nice. Just like the smack down that Green Bay just dealt the stupid ass Steelers!Right now the ATL 200 captain reserve list shows zero availability. As long as I've been here Crew Planning and Scheduling have fought for the flexibility to be, frankly, lazy. They were quite opposed to the concept of having the online reserve list, or any transparency for that matter during contract negotiations. When I speak to my captain's rep regarding the abysmal reserve conditions, he tells me our pilot group is too expensive, and asks what I would be willing to give up to achieve the reserve improvements I mention. Yet company can afford to deadhead me 10 times in 10 recent reserve days, as well as pay for umpteen hotel rooms in IAD, MEM, DTW, and have countless crew in hotels for 18+ hours as scheduled on their line trips. The arguments tendered by company justifying this (and regrettably now our elected representatives) are specious and now wearing quite thin. The unbelievable loss of control during the recent snowpocalypse demonstrated how truly antiquated and detached our Skeds and Crew Planning really are. While recognizing the challenges related to the type flying awarded to us by DL, it is now quite obvious to us all that we aren't working with the brightest bulbs on the tree management-wise, and that we will probably have to force their hand to increase efficiency (and thus our QOL). This means upgrading our trip/duty rigs for example, and personally, I won't vote for any contract which doesn't have pay protection in place for reserves. These items cause short term pain for company but produce long term gains in efficiency.