Originally Posted by
tsquare
I am happy for you that you are senior enough to not work holidays. My seniority is a choice and I am not complaining about that. That being said. We are a 24/7 worldwide operation. There needs to ALWAYS be a point of contact. It is good business for our association to be available. It marginalizes them to not be. Frankly, if something happens on a weekend, ALPA is the LAST thing that enters my mind because I know how difficult it will be to get in touch with anybody.
I don't despise them either. Never said that.
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I totally agree. I like the idea of the duty pilot position, but imp, it needs to be expanded to more than just reps. The reason the reps do it is because 1) It helps them understand contract issues as they solve those issues for us and 2) They are covered under 24J while doing this position.
If it is a money thing, I get it. We are way under budget, and this may somewhere we want to either pay FPL to man 24/7 or make it a volunteer position where guys do it on their off time.
The current system gets the reps a week at the MEC offices once a year, and that is good, but they really are busy with all of the other stuff that is required of them. Tweaking this program may be a good thing for the pilots and for DALPA.