UH OH!! Its gonna hit the fan, now!!!!

[NotTooBad]

Can you still use miscellaneous occurrences on Jr manned trips?

 

[Freebrd]

Am I missing something? The email made it sound like they were asking for volunteers!

For now but ASA has cancelled vacations in the past and paid you for them. Get ready for the big suck.

 

[OCP]

Am I missing something? The email made it sound like they were asking for volunteers!

Read your contract. That is what they have to start with. If no volunteers then they can just take vacation from you and you either get to try to pick something later or get paid for it.

 

[crj567]

Read your contract. That is what they have to start with. If no volunteers then they can just take vacation from you and you either get to try to pick something later or get paid for it.

Whatever-

-I won't be there....

 

[COOPERVANE]

Try it. They will pay me OR reschedule my vacation. Then I'll call in sick anyway.

 

[Flybywire44]

My Vacay is in December, you guys have fun with July... I hope they offer premium vacation credit...

 

[brian041102]

My first round trip today was cancelled because of no crew members avialible. They told me they had 13 trips with 0 captains to call in that would also be cancelled.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Recall All, Recall All, Recall All!!!!!!!

Time for a new ALPA decal.

M

Oh yes, a sticker will definately show them. Perhaps a bag tag as well, that will really get them terrified.

 

[resetjet]

Read your contract. That is what they have to start with. If no volunteers then they can just take vacation from you and you either get to try to pick something later or get paid for it.

Thank you for clarifying. This summer is going to be interesting!

 

[resetjet]

My first round trip today was cancelled because of no crew members avialible. They told me they had 13 trips with 0 captains to call in that would also be cancelled.

Think about the net gain/loss of aircraft then think about all the pilots we have on the street......

Whoops!

 

[resetjet]

Please feel free to correct my math if it's wrong. We had a net loss of 20 airframes, we found a home for 14 of them with one mx spare. So that leaves 5 planes, we just got 4 700's so that would be 1 airframe less than we had last year but we have nearly 100 pilots on the street! WTF! The boys at Atech didn't see this coming? Oh and just for farts and giggles we're losing pilots to Vietnam!

 

[Freebrd]

well there goes completion factor, and Delta reset is this fall right? Uh oh

 

[SpyFlysDOTs]

Cancellation of vacations is in our companies recent past history.

 

[CFI2766]

Anyone remember a recent email from the Brasdster detailing how our completion factor goal for profit sharing was going to be upped? Things that make you wonder...

 

[ohplease!]

Cancellation of vacations is in our companies recent past history.

It's in MOST companies quidelines. It would be shocking to many folks to hear some of the "awesome" companies that have asked for volunteers and then made it mandatory after they didn't get enough...It happens......and BTW, it's in our contract. Sucks but, you can't pick and choose the parts you want to abide by or not.

That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..

 

[CFI2766]

That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..[/QUOTE]


I am not an apologist for the company by any means, but let's be fair here: The summer of 2010 should be remembered as being brought to you by Delta with an unexpected bump in block hours. Everything I'm seeing here points to this as not being a case of a 'dropped ball' by the folks responsible for planning over at the Toffie Terrace...

 

[ohplease!]

That being said....a lot of this could be taken care of by better planning/scheduling from the puzzle factory.

I'm just sayin'..

I am not an apologist for the company by any means, but let's be fair here: The summer of 2010 should be remembered as being brought to you by Delta with an unexpected bump in block hours. Everything I'm seeing here points to this as not being a case of a 'dropped ball' by the folks responsible for planning over at the Toffie Terrace...[/QUOTE]


completely agree. However, this is a perfect case of "find some other place, ANY other place to save a few bucks, and keep the trained personel around for unexpected contingencies".....that, along with better scheduling and ESPECIALLY planning..

 

[SLUF4]

Right, Jerry Atkin himself said we have to be poised to take advantage of opportunities that arise. We weren't.

 

[N1VIBS]

Maybe it's all in the plan and CT and SH know exactly what they're doing.

Maybe, but based on past performance, I seriously doubt it.

 

[CFI2766]

completely agree. However, this is a perfect case of "find some other place, ANY other place to save a few bucks, and keep the trained personel around for unexpected contingencies".....that, along with better scheduling and ESPECIALLY planning..

[/QUOTE]


Agree. The lesson to be learned here is that reserves should be kept for the purpose of covering sick calls, unexpected bumps in traffic, and the occasional broken airplane ferry. Reserves absolutely should not be kept around to fly hidden open time, preventing more expensive senior lineholders from picking it up, to lower payroll costs. Whoever germinated this gem of an idea should have his pee-pee whacked with a rusty fan blade from a CF34 traveling at a full 100% N1. It was this idiotic idea that will make ASA look like the ASA of old this summer, and frankly, it's not the pilots' fault nor job to fix.