Originally Posted by
Sink r8
Bottom line, it's not SD's place to give us an interpretation of what we can and cannot do under the PWA. It's not up to him to create procedures that modify the PWA, in a way that suits his needs. We don't have contract language that says we must acknowledge an assignment 10 hours before show. He might have language that says we must be available via phone any time we're on LC (not rest).
The leverage that the company is trying to use lies in the following:
23.S.5. A long call pilot:
b. must be able to report for an assigned rotation which reports no earlier than 12 hours from the first attempted contact by Crew Scheduling.
c. must be able to report for a rotation within 12 hours of first attempted contact for conversion to short call.
What SD was basically saying in his letter was this - if you don't acknowledge your assignment outside the 10 hour window then you are no longer "able to report for an assigned rotation" and are therefore in violation of 23.S.5.b. So even if you follow the contractual acknowledgement guidance to the letter, you can still be in violation of the contract
At first blush, I was thinking ALPA had the leverage here. Now, I'm not so sure
