Originally Posted by
FDXFLYR
A good partial fix, but not complete. It appears that a legal rest period along the way is required.
If for example, your deadhead is just MEM-DFW-LAX and you want to deviate on the MEM-DFW leg, you'll still lose both legs if you deviate. We should be able to deviate MEM-DFW and then pick up the second leg DFW-LAX, as scheduled. It used to be that way under the previous contract.
That wasn't really part of the contract, what was true was that the chief pilot stated that if you caught up with the scheduled you would be protected.
What they arbitrarily changed was automatically canceling the ground transportation part of the Scheduled pairing. A big deal in some cities.