Reserve and Bidding at Virgin America

[Kezwick]

What is reserve like? 2 hour call out? PBS or Lines? What are the junior bases? Any new bases opening up? How's life on 1st year pay...is there opportunity for over guarantee?

 

[Chairman]

2 hour call out. Lines for reserve. Staffed pretty well right now. Reserve is commutable 15:30 first day earliest show 17:30 day one. Last day done by 15:30 if not assigned a trip. LAX is growing to 60 crews from 20. Very hard to break guarantee and no picking up trips on days off

 

[Yuppyguppy]

UAL LAX base growing an add'l 60 crews too.

 

[Kezwick]

Do you all know the min amount of days off you get as a reserve.

 

[Chairman]

11 or 12 depending on the month

 

[TDK90]

Can you get a block of say 7 days off in a row on reserve?

 

[Chairman]

No the reserve lines are built by hand. You can bid your vacation day 1 with the company. 5 days paid and then 2 others non paid tacked on at the end of your vacation

 

[Busdriver320]

No the reserve lines are built by hand. You can bid your vacation day 1 with the company. 5 days paid and then 2 others non paid tacked on at the end of your vacation

And you get 3 of those seven-day blocks per year. Start in January you get 3 seven day periods. Pro-rated down based on when you get hired. Could be two full blocks + an odd number of days, etc.

Vacation weeks start on Mondays, you get paid for the M-F days and are guaranteed S-S off at the end. You can elect to forego the G-Days and bid to work if you like.

Kinda screwy but it came as a result of vacation blocks originally 5 days, then they fixed it for us non-office types so we actually get 7 days off for vacation. Pay stayed the same per day, so it's essentially 17.5 hours for a seven day block. Needs to be improved, IMO.