Alaska Hawaiian Merger Serious Version

BobDDuck said:
Contract comparisons are really tough to get right. They cover the big issues like pay and min days off and DC percentage fine, but so many things are really nuanced and there just isn't a way to explain or capture the information in a readable document. Most pilots don't even know the details of what is in their own contracts, let alone understand a different property's book.
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I have found that most only have a firm understanding of TAs, usually minutes after they are released. 10 year old contracts are just legalese that can’t be deciphered without a law degree.
 
///AMG said:
This is probably true, however I’d still consider myself a junior FO just past year 3, and I got Dec 22-31 off this year, in last year’s bidding (so my year 2). But that isn’t because the system is awesome for everyone, it is because I’m probably not senior enough to hold the 200% pay blocks on the holidays now that this exists (didn’t before the current contract)
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Well now you can pick up a trip during your vacation and get the 200%

🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
bp said:
sure like it’s optional to pick up open time during a picket. I used to wonder who in the world would try and pick up open time while there’s pilots on furlough and it’s absolutely you
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Oh look, another pilot who doesn’t know his own contract. If there’s pilots on furlough, the provision of reserve pickup on days off, dies.
 
Roger Roger said:
seriously. I think I remember Todd having a rant about this and as was often the case he was basically correct if somewhat abrasive.
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I actually like my job plenty. I also like having vacation time.

And I like the Company having to staff appropriately for it as a known absence.

And I have the same sentiment towards basically any other sort of pre-planned leave while we're on the topic too.

("No, you cannot pick up over your parental leave.")
 
Autothrust Blue said:
I actually like my job plenty. I also like having vacation time.

And I like the Company having to staff appropriately for it as a known absence.

And I have the same sentiment towards basically any other sort of pre-planned leave while we're on the topic too.

("No, you cannot pick up over your parental leave.")
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Wait. You mean the company will pay me while I sit on my back side playing on the PS5 while I recover from surgery? Why the hell would I wanna come back early? “Hey doc, I’m having trouble completing the level can you write me a letter and get me another month of disability so I can finish my game?”
 
Autothrust Blue said:
I actually like my job plenty. I also like having vacation time.

And I like the Company having to staff appropriately for it as a known absence.

And I have the same sentiment towards basically any other sort of pre-planned leave while we're on the topic too.

("No, you cannot pick up over your parental leave.")
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It’s nice to have a reset and actually look forward to coming back to work. That’s why I try to take the longest stretch of time off I can in 6 months intervals.

Whenever I have picked up anything when a trip was taken by training etc I usually go through various stages of grief. Generally, I think about what I could have been doing other than work and how much better of a day that would have been.
 
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BEEF SUPREME said:
It’s nice to have a reset and actually look forward to coming back to work. That’s why I try to take the longest stretch of time off I can in 6 months intervals.

Whenever I have picked up anything when a trip was taken by training etc I usually go through various stages of grief. Generally, I think about what I could have been doing other than work and how much better of a day that would have been.
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I'll do you one better, I bid RES this month because I couldn't be arsed to delve into the bid package like I normally do. I then went and threw some individual vacation days around on the awarded days, and the net result is I probably will wind up not working too much.

I have some family things to do, Mom turns 70 (!) and the fiancee's birthday is at the end of the month and trying to twist and turn a regular line into accommodating that became "nah, I don't have the energy to gnats-ass this."
 
First Euro route announced from SEA to Rome. Hiring 40 on the AS side with 20ish upgrades in SEA PDX and ANC.

46ish hires on the HA side, if I’m reading that correctly.

Allegedly big hiring (by our standards) in Q1. Grains of salt and all that.
 
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