CHQ/Republic/PSA/ASA/SkyWest/Comair-CDOs/highspeeds

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Would be grateful to hear from pilots at the above airlines whether there is a lot of junior manning and/or Continuous Duty overnights/highspeeds at their airline and whether certain of their bases have more of either. Also, if you are on reserve, do you get stuck with more of the CDOs, junior manning etc.
Trying to figure out QOL.
Thanks

 

[8HourPilot]

CHQ/S5/REP. We do not junior man. We also don't do high speed's/CDO's.

 

[8HourPilot]

Well for now anyway ;-)

 

[SSDD]

At Skywest, CDO's pay 1/2 the duty time, so they go pretty senior...for now.

 

[The Drizzle]

I think there was a CDO a month or two ago in STL, and they seem to be coming on the CAL side of things. Just a guess though.

 

[wms]

Junior-manning is the norm at ASA. CDOs are senior, but I don't know how often reserves get called in to do them. They often re-write CDOs with more than 9 hours on the ground as reduced rest overnights, then reassign them to reserves so they can put them in the middle of a multi-day trip. Then the senior guy who had a sweet 9 hour CDO gets reassigned to a shorter one.

 

[SSDD]

Are you saying that after a regular lineholder has a CDO on their schedule, they can take it away and rewrite it and give it to someone else? And the lineholder gets another CDO? That's allowed under your contract?

 

[wms]

Are you saying that after a regular lineholder has a CDO on their schedule, they can take it away and rewrite it and give it to someone else? And the lineholder gets another CDO? That's allowed under your contract?

Unfortunately, yes.

 

[ArcticFlier]

SKYW doesn't JM............for now..........reflow is another thing, however.

 

[info]

SKYW doesn't JM............for now..........reflow is another thing, however.

Thanks -What's "reflow"

 

[nethan]

PSA junior mans up the wazoo depending on how short staffed we are. Max of 3 a month/10 year.

CDOs (highspeeds here) go relatively senior on the CA side it seems but junior for FOs. They sometimes try to play the game where if you end up with more then 8 hours on the ground they call it reduced rest and send your somewhere else afterwards. Mostly that doesn't fly. Also, we won a grievance about not being able to have more then 3 CDOs in a row.

 

[SKYWRJGUY]

Fwiw

I'm a stand-up guy, but not a 'stand-up' kinda guy. Generally our standups/CDOs go somewhere mid-to-senior for Captains and junior-to-mid for FOs (I dunno, maybe time-building). Our JRM is voluntary if they call you, but getting called for a stand-up is pretty rare, considering the 1:2 times time-and-a-half, they tend to disappear off the 'board' pretty quickly. If you can snag one that way, even the PIA one pays 8 hrs, and if you can get a AVP-type? 12 hrs...

Goin on one tonight...

 

[info]

Drizzle - are you Republic or CHQ?

 

[mwmav8r01]

Republic has 2 lines of them for March. And a few every now and a again in STL.

 

[The Drizzle]

Drizzle - are you Republic or CHQ?

same airline.

 

[GINCHBLASTER]

RAH has some CDO's upcoming for the Frontier flying this month. I can't remember if Shuttle America or Republic is doing that Denver stuff. But anyway the March bid packets showed quite a few CDO's. Not sure if it will be a permanent thing or if they are doing them just because they are just starting out and don't have a whole lot of flying there yet.

 

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Thanks

Thanks to all who responded