Pinnacle Classes

[chperplt]

That's the average reserve schedule? How many on/off in a row?

Thanks

 

[Lear70]

The contract minimum is 10 days off for any monthly bid period. Crew Planning has refused to give us more days off than that except for all-ready reserve lines, even when we have extra staffing. Their excuse was, "We don't want crews to get used to more than that then complain when we get short of crews and it goes down to 10."

I don't know what the other bases are doing, but they've been letting me build the DTW reserve lines and on the average, they are 5 days on, 2 days off, 5 days on, 3 days off, and so on for the month. On some lines, we can build one 4-day off block but the rest of the off periods are only two days off each for the rest of the month.

Some lines are 12-day off all-ready-reserve (you sit at the airport for 9 hours waiting for a last-second call which rarely happens), some lines are all home reserve which is a 90-minute call-out period. The rest of the lines are mixed for commuters: the first day is late ready reserve from 18:30 until 22:50, then 3 home reserve days, then an a.m. ready reserve from 0750 until 1650.

Dropping or picking up days has been very difficult lately, so your schedule is pretty much set. The good news is, the new-hires are rarely sitting more than 90 days on reserve before they become line holders. As the bases grow, that could get to be a 4-6 month period of reserve, but it depends on the base and staffing mix.

Hope that answered your question.