ASA Reserves

[Flybywire44]

The largest majority in our pilot group are the reserves or those who will be on reserve again.

PM me if your interested in seeing reserve life improve at ASA.

 

[dojetdriver]

Any days off moved need be be compensated, not just replaced. Automatic min day + credit earned on said day. If under 75 this needs to go on top of guarantee...AND an RDO. Having days off moved last minute is a HUGE inconvenience. Why do we get nothing for it?????

At XJT you get min day credit (or value of that days flying if over 3.75) x 150%, as well as your day restored. It is "add pay" and credited on top of your 75 hours.

At ASA/XJT we should expect nothing less than this, currently they're paying 200%, which IMO is what it should be.

And if you read the new MOU, if a reserve has a day off rolled and it's not restorable, it's 10 hours add pay PLUS and added vacation day the following year. I talked to a reserve CA in ORD that it happened to 3 times this month. 105 hours (or more, not sure what they were sitting at) + 3 additional vacation days.

However, in my little world, MOU 22 could have simply said this;

"Reserve pilots will have 13 days off in a 30 day bid period, and 14 days off in a 31 day bid period. A reserve pilot will NEVER be awarded a reserve line that has less than 3 consecutive days free of duty anywhere in the bid period." and just kept the current pay/day off restoration language.

 

[Dannone]

We need to get one thing straight. This is not a reserve problem, though I totally agree the reserves at ASA anyway, have been treated horribly. The company doesn't treat line holders any better. As a matter of fact in March everyone has been on reserve. I am in the middle of 10 out of 11 days with an extension in between!! I am not near being on reserve. Point being we cannot make this a reserve v line holder or ASA v Expressjet issue. That is playing right into their hands. It must be both groups all together to improve our lives using the opportunity we have with this merger. Either the company shares the merger benefits or none of us get any. That simple, because status quo is not even close to acceptable.

 

[johnpeace]

That is true, it's not a 'reserve problem' so much as it is a systemic failure of the crew planning/utilization/scheduling management.

The reserves bear the brunt of it, as there's practically zero protections for the most grievous abuses of the failures in those departments. Look at all the protections lineholders have (150% for extensions, credit/pay protected within footprint, ability to swap/drop/pick-up)...we have none of that.

All of the chaos and stupidity, none of the flexibility and freedom.

I want our next contract to make it impossibly expensive for the company to continue to use morons to allocate crews. I want to force them into approaching the crew utilization problem with competence and intelligence and go on a massive housecleaning spree over there.

Stronger, less flexible (for them) reserve language is an important part of that overall strategy.

 

[Redan]

That is true, it's not a 'reserve problem' so much as it is a systemic failure of the crew planning/utilization/scheduling management.

The reserves bear the brunt of it, as there's practically zero protections for the most grievous abuses of the failures in those departments. Look at all the protections lineholders have (150% for extensions, credit/pay protected within footprint, ability to swap/drop/pick-up)...we have none of that.

All of the chaos and stupidity, none of the flexibility and freedom.

I want our next contract to make it impossibly expensive for the company to continue to use morons to allocate crews. I want to force them into approaching the crew utilization problem with competence and intelligence and go on a massive housecleaning spree over there.

Stronger, less flexible (for them) reserve language is an important part of that overall strategy.

Agreed! Again, this is where PAY PROTECTION for RESERVES comes into play. The first step for systemic reform as this would remove reserves as the catch all option.

I agree with everything you say and will add that our union's perspectives from the dark ages tend to prop up company's ineptitude. Union's current focus on growth/competitiveness makes the pilot group a prime target for cost savings (for example: we get an MOU out of nowhere allowing ACARS extensions). That in turn props up the inept crew utilization making ACARS an element of the scheduling model as we've all seen here in March. This all assumes acceptance of the premise that pilot costs are a primary factor in the competitiveness of the airline thus playing right into management's hand.

 

[701EV]

What MOU states ACARS is official notification from scheduling?

 

[Abernathy]

What MOU states ACARS is official notification from scheduling?

MOU16.

http://flightops.asacontract.com/assets/Uploads/MOU16-Sections-13V-13W.pdf

Our MEC Chairman signed the MOU himself. I wonder what kind of favors he got in return for selling out the pilot group again.

Throw them out.

 

[johnpeace]

You ACK that?!

 

[ASA Captain]

The one that really applies to the ACARS is in your FOM. You are required to respond (when safe) to an ACARS, including scheduling notifications.

And they can track that the aircraft received the message.

Sucks, but it is in the FOM.

 

[Nevets]

No calling after a trip. Check sked plus and go home. Can't be put on RR on the pm shift before days off and no more than 3 conversions from long call to short call (or maybe we put a quarterly limit in so they don't run it up to the limit for no reason every month).

We have that at XJT already. I don't remember the conversion limitation part though.

That's what I have never understood. We are trained as pilots...yet we elect from our own to go up against "professional " negotiaters who do this day in day out. Some of us may have some law degrees and interesting majors...but who are we kidding? We became pilots to fly airplanes ..so why isn't our alpa money used to hire people to represent us that do this for a living.

ALPA does use professional negotiators.

In fact, that would solve many of our society's problems, no more automatic deduction of taxes. Once folks really see how much they have to give the government each money, they'll get involved.

FairTax would solve that!

Union's current focus on growth/competitiveness makes the pilot group a prime target for cost savings (for example: we get an MOU out of nowhere allowing ACARS extensions).

At XJT they can only reassign if a crew scheduler, crew tracker, or chief pilot meets you at the aircraft to notify you.

 

[Data]

FairTax would solve that!

I'm with you on that!

 

[Speedtape]

MOU16.

http://flightops.asacontract.com/assets/Uploads/MOU16-Sections-13V-13W.pdf

Our MEC Chairman signed the MOU himself. I wonder what kind of favors he got in return for selling out the pilot group again.

Throw them out.

The other option, that alot of other airlines do, is you have to go to OPS to sign out when you are off duty. I'll take the ACARS notification.

 

[Abernathy]

The other option, that alot of other airlines do, is you have to go to OPS to sign out when you are off duty. I'll take the ACARS notification.

Name the "a lot of" airlines.

 

[Speedtape]

The largest majority in our pilot group are the reserves or those who will be on reserve again.

PM me if your interested in seeing reserve life improve at ASA.

You need help in math! The Reserve cadre is currently between 11-15%.

Largest Majority? How can you have more than one Majority?

How will you help me improve my reserve life? You seem to have challenges in math and proper use of the English language.

 

[MikeSF340]

I think he meant that almost ALL FO's will be on reserve again when they first upgrade.