Originally Posted by
Dorfman
Agreed. Guys have to be willing to press to test this issue and not acknowledge trips at the 10 hour prior point. I respectfully disagree with Gloopy that we are legally obligated to do so. Let the company feel the pain of 117. I will even say we should be ready to pay an assessment for the affected pilots if they do have money withheld from the company.
I have engaged my reps and told them I willing to put up the ****ty schedules and the threats from SD. I am willing because we can't give in on this, this is our leverage. I have been told that DALPA understands this and the reps have their marching orders.
In fact I heard from a jumpseater that SD walked in for some negotiations last week and MD told him to, my words, pound sand. If they weren't ready to really negotiate then don't waste our time.
Absolutely. Our leverage will evaporate instantaneously if most folks put themselves on a two-hour leash and bail out the company.
We need to inform our reserve buddies of this issue. The APC crowd is more informed than your average bear, and there are a ton of guys out there who are absolutely clueless.
Along those lines, as Deadhead and others have said, there will be hostages. If you decide not to acknowledge until within 10 hours, do not pull up iCrew for any reason unless you intend to acknowle. After you get the phone message from skeds, don't update icrew mobile or "cheat" by looking at "daily trip coverage." T
he company can see exactly when you log onto DBMS, and you may have to answer the mail if they can make a case that you slow-roll the acknowledgment.
The company will make this tough. The "crew auto notification" system will be working overtime. Calls/texts/emails will go out every five minutes to browbeat guys into acknowledging.
A couple of options for not getting disturbed in the middle of the night (or middle of the day--ringmaster is so 1997
):
-Google Voice (free). You can create a rule to send Delta auto-notification calls straight to volice mail. PM me and I can walk you through it.
- iPhone Do Not Disturb. You can set it so your "favorites" ring even if it's on; I will add and remove Delta Scheduling from my favorites based on whether I'm contactable.
-Don't answer when skeds call
Summary:
Tell your buddies
Don't access DBMS until you're ready to acknowledge
Don't answer the phone when Delta calls