Originally Posted by
atrdriver
Oh, sorry, I was referring to the not-hiring-til-we-are-cancelling-for-no-crews strategy. However, your experience with the flag ops is definitely a dirty trick that shouldn't be available to the company.
Not really a "dirty trick." There are instances where it makes sense to operate that way, like augmented crews with rest enroute. But some flag operations are two pilot deals. Delta's got quite a handful of double red eye flag rotations on the 737.
The crew schedulers (to the best of my knowledge) have no mandate to do anything other than to cover the airline's flying legally. The pilot has a responsibility which outweighs the responsibility of the scheduler. At the end of the day we all agree safety comes first.
Weren't junior manned trips 200% at ASA? Some folks find a big pile of extra pay to be refreshing. Guess daydreaming about the extra pay keeps a guy awake.