Reserves and Your Airline

Inverted said:
The hell it isn't. SFO is the most understaffed base for FO and I know several that not on;y never work on reserve, they can't even pick trips up on their days off because there are so few.
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One just txt me that he was calling out sick because of the captain. Sounds like a fun spot.
 
Inverted said:
It is DD I am sure lol.

And SFO would be the least offensive base for sick calls that are CA-related. I hear all the stories of SEA and ANC. Or should I say, nightmares lol...
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Lollllll legendary. I’d still rather fly with him than one other dude I’ve flown with.
 
Roger Roger said:
Lollllll legendary. I’d still rather fly with him than one other dude I’ve flown with.
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Yea honestly he never made my no fly list, he was close though. I am so curous who the CA is you are talking about. I flew with a really bad just before COVID and he was so bad I almost called out mid trip lol.
 
CoffeeIcePapers said:
They can breakup a trip that hits open time however they want and turn a 4 day into whatever they want, but this isn't that efficient.
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When I was AA, they broke up trips all the time.

The former manager of scheduling (proper caps) was the devil in female form. She hated pilots. It was either her or someone else that got it into the heads of the higher ups that pilots sitting around on reserve were "stealing from the company", so Scheduling did everything thing in their power to keep the reserves flying right up until guarantee.

On the plus side, this burned all the reserves so that no one was available when the excrement hit the air acceleration device and thus lead to a pure meltdown when one wasn't needed.

AA has had a hub in DFW since 1981 and it's rained in Texas since the beginning of time. But for some reason, it was a completely new and foreign event every time it happened.
 
ERfly said:
AA has had a hub in DFW since 1981 and it's rained in Texas since the beginning of time. But for some reason, it was a completely new and foreign event every time it happened.
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That's like when it snows in SEA. You'd think with an eskimo on the tail they would be able to handle a little...nope.
 
Skåning said:
That's like when it snows in SEA. You'd think with an eskimo on the tail they would be able to handle a little...nope.
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5-7 days to recover from an afternoon summer thunderstorm...brilliant.

But yet, Bobby I. is lamenting that "It's never been harder to operate an airline..." Hmm...maybe try it sometime. Better yet, give yourself another raise. You deserve it. :rolleyes:
 
ERfly said:
5-7 days to recover from an afternoon summer thunderstorm...brilliant.

But yet, Bobby I. is lamenting that "It's never been harder to operate an airline..." Hmm...maybe try it sometime. Better yet, give yourself another raise. You deserve it. :rolleyes:
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Can you blame an airline CEO? They be like, my pilots bending 767s and still creating attrition!
 
Skåning said:
That's like when it snows in SEA. You'd think with an eskimo on the tail they would be able to handle a little...nope.
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It’s SEA. There’s just no space. Bravo gets jacked up with deice ops, which then interferes with taxing planes to/from 16L/34R. If it snows in SEA, things are gonna get jacked up. Only solution is to pre-cancel and thin the herd. Less flights, less planes, less congestion during snow ops.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Can you blame an airline CEO? They be like, my pilots bending 767s and still creating attrition!
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Yes. Yes, I can.

Having worked for him and seeing how he "runs" the business, his arrogance and what he truly cares about? I can blame a vast majority of failure at American on him.
 
RSV is so kush at my airline that people generally want to file a grievance when they're called for a trip.

But times a'will be changing.
 
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