call forwarding

[dollacrackho]

Anyone ever use call forwarding when on reserve. for example you're sitting home and have to commute up to base while on duty. There are a couple of hours when you're out of phone reception. You can forward the call to a friend and avoid a no contact on your record. Just curious if anyone has done it.

 

[say again]

Could you call them prior to let them know you're on your way to base and wont have phone service for a while?

 

[CesnaCaptn]

Anyone ever use call forwarding when on reserve. for example you're sitting home and have to commute up to base while on duty. There are a couple of hours when you're out of phone reception. You can forward the call to a friend and avoid a no contact on your record. Just curious if anyone has done it.

Do you know about google voice? That's the number I use for company business. You can set it to only ring during your reserve time, it allows you to screen calls and it allows you to forward the call to as many phone numbers as you like. You can also personalize the outgoing message based on the number that is calling you.

I haven't used it yet, but you can use the taptalk ap on your iphone to make free calls over the internet while overseas.

 

[The Drizzle]

Do you know about google voice? That's the number I use for company business. You can set it to only ring during your reserve time, it allows you to screen calls and it allows you to forward the call to as many phone numbers as you like. You can also personalize the outgoing message based on the number that is calling you.

I haven't used it yet, but you can use the taptalk ap on your iphone to make free calls over the internet while overseas.

I've used this for years as a reserve at a regional, revolutionized my quality of life.

 

[detwilers]

Anyone ever use call forwarding when on reserve. for example you're sitting home and have to commute up to base while on duty. There are a couple of hours when you're out of phone reception. You can forward the call to a friend and avoid a no contact on your record. Just curious if anyone has done it.

I did do this before and forwarded my calls to my wife. Told her to tell them I am out on an errand and to mark me advised and she world pass the message on when I get home. Then one day I just outright asked a scheduler about commuting in the morning of and she said no problem. So from that day on I would call before my commute at say 0600 with RSV starting at 0700. I would tell them I am landing at 0800 and will check in with them (ie check my voicemail and schedule on my phone) when I land. They were fine with this because the earliest showtime would be 0900. I did this at 2 other airlines where I spend 8 years on RSV total and NEVER did they actually call in that overlap period. Currently on RSV now too but I drive to work. What a difference in stress when you can simply drive to work.

 

[wms]

Do you know about google voice? That's the number I use for company business. You can set it to only ring during your reserve time, it allows you to screen calls and it allows you to forward the call to as many phone numbers as you like. You can also personalize the outgoing message based on the number that is calling you.

I haven't used it yet, but you can use the taptalk ap on your iphone to make free calls over the internet while overseas.

They way to go.

 

[dollacrackho]

I did do this before and forwarded my calls to my wife. Told her to tell them I am out on an errand and to mark me advised and she world pass the message on when I get home. Then one day I just outright asked a scheduler about commuting in the morning of and she said no problem. So from that day on I would call before my commute at say 0600 with RSV starting at 0700. I would tell them I am landing at 0800 and will check in with them (ie check my voicemail and schedule on my phone) when I land. They were fine with this because the earliest showtime would be 0900. I did this at 2 other airlines where I spend 8 years on RSV total and NEVER did they actually call in that overlap period. Currently on RSV now too but I drive to work. What a difference in stress when you can simply drive to work.

Was it cool with the company that your wife said she would notify you, or did they want to speak directly to you ever?

 

[get2flyin]

AWA scheduling use to have no problem with reserves doing this as long you arrived at your base prior to your show time. I use to just call and tell them the flight I was on and they would put a note on my line. It is actually pretty advantageous to them because I'd be at the airport in uniform with all my stuff. If they needed to call me with less than the contractually required minimum, they knew I'd already be at the airport ready to go.

I think they ended up putting an end to it because people were taking flights that arrived too late after the earliest check-in time. I had a buddy who would just call when he was getting on a flight at tell them, "I'm headed into the gym inside the airport (LAS) and will be working out for about 2 hours without my phone. Just leave a message if you need me to do a trip and I'll call you, dressed and ready, from the airport when I'm done." They where fine with that.

 

[detwilers]

Was it cool with the company that your wife said she would notify you, or did they want to speak directly to you ever?

I only did the Forwarding thing a few times until I just asked scheduling if they could leave me a message. So never got a call.

My thought process was back in the day people didn't have cell phones and needed to live their lives. After talking to guys who lived it before cell phones they told be you sometimes had to go do stuff. So they would either have there wife answer field the call for them or they would call scheuding and let them know they are running to the store and would be back in 30 min. Or if they were going out to dinner they would give them the number to the restaurant. I know, crazy to think about having to do all that now.

But I just asked one day if they could just leave me a message becasue my phone was going to be off for an hour and they said sure. As time went on, one day I just say "Hey I commuting in blah blah blah could you leave me a message and consider me notified? I will check my voicemail and schedule in an hour when I land." Apparently other people did this and it was fine, as it should be.

If you have a 2 hour drive what it the difference if you have 1.5 hour flight. Should you only be allowed to drive during your callout time? Can you take a train? So why not a plane. Like I said it was never a problem with scheduling and in the time I had an overlap with my commute and call out times never did I actually get a call in the overlap period. Probably becasue if it looked like I may be working I would not have been pushing a tight commute. I would only do this on the first day with good weather and many other guys ahead of me. It wouldn't hurt to ask.