USAjet schedule info

[Nolife]

Anyone know the pilot schedule or rotation @ USAjet?

 

[Spencer]

Schedule?

There ain't one. There is a rotation. You come back from flying you get you required rest and you go to the bottom of the board. That might be #17 or it might be #1. Just depends on how busy you are. You might be #5 at 3pm and #1 at 4pm. You just don't know.

 

[pilotyip]

Rotation

As per above rotation, it works on a first in, first out in rotation. When you work up to #1, if you don't get a trip in 12 hours you rotate to the bottom. If you are going off in the next 24 hrs you are bypassed in rotation except for trips returning to YIP. The company prime directive of "No trip will be refused" drives the decison on which crews to use, it is the nature of the business. If you are the only crew and it is a one way to ELP into your day off, you are on your way. When it is busy and there is shortage of lift, you have to fly. Crews going off in the next 24 hours have 1st right of refusal for trips flying into their days off. If you fly back into YIP on your day off and you block in after 12 hrs of the day has passed you are released and paid for flying on your day off. Crews coming back in rotation have the right to establish by senority their positon in rotation either at the top or the bottom. Senority pretty well governs most crew issues at USA Jet. We work to get our pilots back to YIP on days off, and according to a recent survey over 90% said they were their days off as scheduled. DC-9 crewmembers get 12 days off every 28 day bid period and DA-20 pilots get 8 days off every 28 bid period. Pilots bid hard lines based upon senoirty. The days off are set around long weekends, 2-4 day weekends for the DA-20 and 2-6 day weekends for the DC-9. For DC-9 crewmembers with more than 6 days on in a row, the company eats the 1-7, if necessary, as an addditonal day off. If you work on your day off, which includes sitting in a hotel on the road, you get 4 hours pay over guarentee. We have comments from former pilots who went to work at scheduled passenger carriers and fractionals tell us, they were home a whole lot more at USA Jet than at ABC company.
We probably have the most pilot friendly scheduling in the on-demand business and we are trying to improve it on a regular basis. Any comments?