Originally Posted by
AceyCandler
.. i'm not here to win the internet dude. But you gotta realize, if the DTW crews are hit with ground stops leaving DTW for the east coast or they get stuck/diverted going to places on the east coast like RDU or ORF... thats gonna have a domino effect for later DTW flights to OMA, DFW, and BFE. That'll "significantly affect flight operations at any of the Company’s domicile(s) as determined by the OCC"
But go ahead and feed your suspicion that it's all about the company trying to cover up for bad staffing. I don't care. It ain't my problem!
Answer me this then since you seem to know.......
Our scheduler yesterday called for us to do 1 leg somewhere, and then DH back. We arrive at the airport, and the crew taking the airplane is no where to be found. It's suppose to be their first flight of the day, and they were DH'ing in from ATL. They were booked, but never on the plane. 2 pilots and 2 FA's, booked but never on it for a first flight of the day. What did we do? We offered to the company to operate that flight to avoid cancellations and severely delayed flights. The OCC had
NO CLUE that the other crew was never even at the airport they should have been at until we called them.
Another example is I was suppose to be DH'ed somewhere for an overnight. I called and told scheduling that I will give them one reason why I am calling. They said for rest in the place I was suppose to DH to. Well it was amazing how I got there, as there was no crew to operate that flight at all (company flight, and they could see that). They had no clie at all that no one could operate that flight until I called and told them. Thanks for the free 9.5 hours of pay on that one scheduling.
To say we are properly staffed is a joke. And I'm not just talking about pilots, I'm referring to competently staffed schedulers too. The NE had very few delays yesterday. You can't say EWR delays are cause for an IROP, as they weren't last summer or the summer before. We had 0, yes 0 FO's on reserve yesterday. Our captain yesterday called and picked up the trip, and said he will pick it up if it pays at premium pay even though it wasn't posted. They gave it to him. Guess what, he got 8:09 or credit and 8:09 of junior man pay yesterday due to a crew not showing up. 12:14 of credit on a 10:45 duty day.
I'm also now scheduler for 29:47 in 7 with my next 4 day that starts tomorrow with quite a bit of ATL flying. I know I will have overblock for sure, and scheduling response: You're legal, so just operate until you go over. Lets see what happens when I go over on my last leg at an outstation and can't operate the flight back.