First off - I know the call sign sucks. Hopefully that is the Expressjet guys biggest dilemma with this whole thing.
I am sure we are aware that if this becomes a US Air/America West thing we all lose. A DAL/NWA merger is probably desired by all. No one should "Win". My personal opinion is irrelevant (as is everyone else's). The deal appears to be happening and we should make the best of it.
I would invite guys/gals to post the "highlights" of the companies contracts to see what may be in this for us. I personally think that ASA/XJT have the better contracts in the industry. If the better parts were combined - I'm sure we have the best of the regional industry. I know it's somewhat of a smartest kid with down syndrome thing but we should make the place worth working at since we can't control many parts of the industry.
The entire ASA contract can be found publicly at ASAContract.com.
I would say the highlights are:
Duty Rigs (1 min for 2 min up to 12 hours - 1 for 1 after 12 hours. (Applies to Naps/CDO's)
Min Day Credits (3:45 per day - soon to increase a bit with the PBS agreement)
Trade for day less trips (Although useless recently)
No Furlough prior to 11/07 hire dates. (Hopefully a new no furlough can come of this new CBA)
Commuter Policy (1 flight with 1 seat available for sale to get you there in a "reasonable time" for duty in)
Max Scheduled duty days - Vary on duty in times.
Report Time Maximum Scheduled Duty Time
0400-0559 12:30 hours
0600-1459 14:00 hours
1500-2159 13:30 hours
2200-0359 11:00 hours
New full brokerage account for retirement stuff
Things to work on:
Scheduling Language
Sick pay accrual
Reserve Utilization. Currently we have a 12 (top 20% of reservists must get this I think) hour a 2 hour and an 8 hour ready reserve. There are limits on the number of conversions but it is way too many.
Get extension/jr man pay up to 200% so they have a reason to offer daily opentime over extensions instead of hiding it.
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These are my off the top of the head observations. Anyone else have any insight? On ASA's stuff or XJT's?
I am sure we are aware that if this becomes a US Air/America West thing we all lose. A DAL/NWA merger is probably desired by all. No one should "Win". My personal opinion is irrelevant (as is everyone else's). The deal appears to be happening and we should make the best of it.
I would invite guys/gals to post the "highlights" of the companies contracts to see what may be in this for us. I personally think that ASA/XJT have the better contracts in the industry. If the better parts were combined - I'm sure we have the best of the regional industry. I know it's somewhat of a smartest kid with down syndrome thing but we should make the place worth working at since we can't control many parts of the industry.
The entire ASA contract can be found publicly at ASAContract.com.
I would say the highlights are:
Duty Rigs (1 min for 2 min up to 12 hours - 1 for 1 after 12 hours. (Applies to Naps/CDO's)
Min Day Credits (3:45 per day - soon to increase a bit with the PBS agreement)
Trade for day less trips (Although useless recently)
No Furlough prior to 11/07 hire dates. (Hopefully a new no furlough can come of this new CBA)
Commuter Policy (1 flight with 1 seat available for sale to get you there in a "reasonable time" for duty in)
Max Scheduled duty days - Vary on duty in times.
Report Time Maximum Scheduled Duty Time
0400-0559 12:30 hours
0600-1459 14:00 hours
1500-2159 13:30 hours
2200-0359 11:00 hours
New full brokerage account for retirement stuff
Things to work on:
Scheduling Language
Sick pay accrual
Reserve Utilization. Currently we have a 12 (top 20% of reservists must get this I think) hour a 2 hour and an 8 hour ready reserve. There are limits on the number of conversions but it is way too many.
Get extension/jr man pay up to 200% so they have a reason to offer daily opentime over extensions instead of hiding it.
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These are my off the top of the head observations. Anyone else have any insight? On ASA's stuff or XJT's?