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^^^^^He is not representative of the vast majority of AT FO's.
You must not be very bright if you can't figure out that reserve going senior for people who live locally means that more junior guys who don't live locally don't get stuck on a reserve schedule that they don't want. It works better for everybody.
won't waste any more time responding to your rubbish.
Not really. It's really more like 20+, because unlike SWA, you don't get used.
No it's not 20+ if you are kept on a tether by scheduling, it's just days that you didn't have to fly an airplane. Also, the reason Reserve doesn't go senior at SWA is because those guys are already getting 19 days off, or more if they choose to give away a trip or two.
We have only had this system for what, a year and a half? And only since we have been owned by SWA. Prior to that Airtran reserve system sucked and was worse than my prior regional by far. URP'ing, 10 days off, they could change your reserve periods, put you into rest in the middle of the day to fly standups, reserve in other bases, fly it and grieve it, just to name a few of the stellar parts of the contract. Plus we have twice as many people on reserve. I like how we have amnesia to the contract we were operating under at date of purchase.
We have only had this system for what, a year and a half? And only since we have been owned by SWA. Prior to that Airtran reserve system sucked and was worse than my prior regional by far. URP'ing, 10 days off, they could change your reserve periods, put you into rest in the middle of the day to fly standups, reserve in other bases, fly it and grieve it, just to name a few of the stellar parts of the contract. Plus we have twice as many people on reserve. I like how we have amnesia to the contract we were operating under at date of purchase.
With a real reserve system, it's not really a tether. I know this is a difficult concept for the rented mules to understand, so try to keep up. When you have a reserve bucket system with full transparency, you know exactly where you are in the list to get called at any given moment. You can pull up the list, see that you're number twelve to get called with nothing in open time, and know that you've got the day off and can go do what you want. Hardly a tether. Does it still keep you in Atlanta if you're a commuter? Sure. But that's why an airline with a major airline reserve system also has long-call reserve, rather than having the regional airline reserve system that you have. Our long-call guys don't waste time sitting around Atlanta away from home, and they still get the same days off or more than the SWA reserves.
There's nothing wrong with looking at the facts objectively and admitting that your reserve work rules absolutely suck. In fact, it's the only way that it will ever get fixed. But I suspect that you're the type who doesn't give a flying f--- about the junior guys on reserve, and wouldn't even consider giving up a five cent pay raise to make their lives better.