Possible New Fall Staffing Solution at ASA

[Flybywire44]

~30 furloughs are bypassing, Fall flight hours are not dropping off.

Solution: Rush PBS in by the end of August so ASA don't have to hire or run as many upgrades.

We all lost relativity by voting in PBS.

 

[resetjet]

Agree ^

 

[goahead]

Bypassing??? I thought if they didn't come back they were done. I agree WTF is the union doing bending over backwards for the company. 3 runs in like 2 weeks??? worthless, sure I'll be working this Christmas haven't worked one in 8 years.

 

[Abernathy]

Let's put it tihs way. Our MEC is not interested in the well-being of the pilot group. They are self-absorbed, and unless you are a reckless senior pilot, they won't do much for you.

It's also possible that they are just plain stupid. BH and CT are pretty intelligent, and they can play our MEC like a piano. A good piano. Like a Steinway. Or maybe a Yamaha. Yeah a Yamaha. Definitely a Yamaha.

Sigh. I wouldn't know. I don't play the Piano.

 

[sayrejm]

i had a thought that a lot of furloughs selected last class available as a loop hole to get around "be recalled or be removed" part of the contract. You get the last class, it gives you more time to think or wait for something to happen, and if it doesn't then you resign before your class starts. It is just a loop hole to buy more time.

 

[goahead]

Good thing they're not in control of our future QOL, wait oh man were SOL. When's the last time our master super duper MEC pres flew??????

Yea Yea, I know he's busy working for us right......

 

[asayankee]

There is absolutely no purpose to bidding on the SAME LINES 2 weeks apart. People will either not change their original bid or will bid something unrealistic compared to what they would usually.....either way it makes "re-bidding" on the same lines completely pointless.

The goal isn't just to learn how to use the FLICA interface....but to see the results and how you would fare against others. By making the 2nd and 3rd bid "cycles" essentially worthless, the whole exercise becomes a waste.

Thanks ALPA...go screw yourselves

 

[SPDBRD747400]

I voted NO on PBS!

 

[Metro752]

If you like what Age 65 has done to every airline pilot in the United States then you can help bring more results like that to your very own airline with PBS!

 

[goahead]

Wish I could vote no on our current association

 

[crj567]

Let's put it tihs way. Our MEC is not interested in the well-being of the pilot group. They are self-absorbed, and unless you are a reckless senior pilot, they won't do much for you.

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I am pretty senior-and I am very pissed at these guys! Our current MEC has sold us all down the river! I am not a reckless guy-I really do think we should all be united against the corruption and graft we have seen from mgmt for many years. And PBS is just a sorry excuse for a reach-around...

I am truly frightened by the actions of our MEC of late-they completely let SH and CT break one off in our collective butts the last couple of years.... For what?! I am very fearful that we are seeing a few guys get very entrenched in power-to the detriment of our group. It sure as hell is starting to look a lot like the kind of crap Comair used to have .

-If any of these guys had any honor, they would fight for what is best for us-or just resign and be replaced with someone who would!!

 

[ZeroThRUST]

What happened to the 3 months of parallel bidding that was part of the deal?

The 3 months were often mentioned during both the roadshow sales pitch and other informal meetings in the crew lounge, recurrent, etc.

Perhaps it was part of the PBS presentation. Yes, it was Planned B..ll Sh..t!

 

[Flybywire44]

What is the real reason behind this push for September PBS implementation?

 

[crj567]

What happened to the 3 months of parallel bidding that was part of the deal?

The 3 months were often mentioned during both the roadshow sales pitch and other informal meetings in the crew lounge, recurrent, etc.

Perhaps it was part of the PBS presentation. Yes, it was Planned B..ll Sh..t!

VERY Good Point!

I remember all that from the road show as well! I have often complained that things were definitely given a very "optimistic"slant during this show..... If this doesn't come to pass, then I think we can call it an outright lie! It was made very clear to us that there would be at least 3 months of "parallel bidding." There was no gray area-no interpretation possible. The "parallel bid" was clearly promised to us by our union.

-These guys are on very thin ice. I have a feeling that implementation of this crap PBS agreement will be the last straw.

 

[OCP]

What is the point in parallel bidding anyway? Not if we hate it anything is going to change. We already voted it in.

 

[crj567]

What is the point in parallel bidding anyway? Not if we hate it anything is going to change. We already voted it in.

True-

But at least we could learn our way around the system, and maybe figure out some of the pitfalls we would need to avoid. This was a big deal to me-I still voted "no," but I never would have imagined that we would soon be doing this for real-with no practice.

 

[maxcackel]

The schedulers are getting trained on PBS. They can't believe we VOTED for this and are laughing at how screwed the bottom 60-70% are going to be.

 

[bigshooter107]

Did I miss an email? When does PBS start?

 

[goahead]

Email your reps, I know it's a pain in the but by letting them know how outright pissed we are is the only thing that might help.

 

[wms]

What is the point in parallel bidding anyway? Not if we hate it anything is going to change. We already voted it in.

ditto