Bids closed for May today. I was betting money I would get good ol’ airport standby. I didn’t. The bids aren’t final yet, but they rarely change. Right now I got a straight reserve line. I actually wanted the afternoon airport standby line as it had Memorial Day weekend off! The line I was awarded [...]

A preliminary bid award came out. The premlinary bid award is what the airline thinks will happen after all the counting is done. This displacement has been run and all the statuses have been evaluated and recorded at least once. The preliminary bid award is displayed to allow the pilots and the airline to look [...]

The game of poker continues. Last night at 11PM all bids were locked. This morning an email was sent out with the names and employee numbers of all pilots who want to “Proffer to Displace”. There weren’t very many so I took some time to compare names/employee numbers to those in my status. After double [...]

Found this video on Youtube.com. Filming in the cockpit is MAYBE okay in straight and level flight during cruise. Any other time it’s dangerous. I would NEVER shoot a video while in the middle of an emergency decent. With a descent rate of 7000 feet per minute they must have had the flight spoilers fully [...]

Tomorrow at noon the displacement bid will close. Sometime after that a complex series of moves will be deconstructed by the airline. My status is being reduced by 3. Since I am the bottom guy I am probably going to be displaced. Why probably ? Well lots of moves can be played. The other pilots [...]

Today is my last day of reserve for the week. Tomorrow evening my wife and I plan to be on a cruise ship headed to the Bahamas. I just have to get through today. I am assigned a reserve call out period from 10 AM until 11:59PM. There are several rules that come into play [...]