NetJets Schedule

[Captain Morgan]

Looking through the application it says, "Pilots are initially on an eighteen-day duty (reserve) schedule every thirty days." How long does this reserve schedule last? Do you have to rotate to this schedule every thirty days for your career or is there an end to it? This may be a dumb question, but the way it reads could be interpreted a few different ways. Thanks

CM

 

[n7715x]

You are put on the "reserve" schedule for the duration of training, at the end of which you can bid to the 7 on 7 off schedule. It is theoretically possible to be junior assigned to the 18 day schedule, but I haven't heard of this happening in any of the fleets (people who choose to work the 18 day schedule get more pay.) Hope this helps.

P.S. - our IBB package comes out tomorrow night, and we'll vote somewhere around Nov. 20th...if that passes there may be a couple new types of schedules available as well.

 

[skiandsurf]

You are put on the "reserve" schedule for the duration of training, at the end of which you can bid to the 7 on 7 off schedule.

At most airlines, anytime you go thru a new aircraft training event, you go on to the reserve pay schedule. So if you are a line holder at 90 hours of pay, you might drop to a 70 hr reserve pay schedule during training. At NJs, you actually get paid more for training (reserve sched vs. the 7n7 schedule).

 

[CA1900]

Looking through the application it says, "Pilots are initially on an eighteen-day duty (reserve) schedule every thirty days." How long does this reserve schedule last?

Until the next bid period after you've been released from training to IOE. The bid periods are 3 months, starting in February, May, August, and November. When I started, I finished aircraft training in early January, and was able to bid a 7/7 line beginning February 1.

Do you have to rotate to this schedule every thirty days for your career or is there an end to it?

The 7/7 schedule is the default schedule. If you want to stay on the reserve, you have to bid to stay on it every bid quarter, or you'll go to a 7/7 line automatically. In the current contract, you'll hold that 7/7 line until you upgrade, switch airplanes, or bid a different schedule.

Also, keep in mind that "reserve" at NetJets isn't like reserve at the airlines. You're not sitting in a crashpad waiting to get called out on a minute's notice. On reserve, you'll work a max of 18 days per month, and you'll know by 6pm the evening prior if and when you'll be reporting for work.

Once you get a showtime, it won't change. If things change and they don't need you, they'll either send you home (and give you the following three days off), or put you in a hotel at the company's expense. (It's a very good provision in our contract.)

Hope that helps.

 

[theskyking]

Also, the reserve schedule can be influenced by how you bid your 4 hard days (guaranteed days off that the company can't touch). There are some tricks to bidding those to maximize your days off. Many on the current reserve schedule rarely work more than 15-16 days a month. You just don't have the predictability that 7/7 gives you.

If you are on the reserve schedule, you can call the crew resource center sometime after the middle of the month to find out what scheduling is planning for the next month. Whatever scheduling has planned usually holds true 95% of the time.

All this is subject to change pending Nov. 20.