Originally Posted by
flybynuts
For sure! I meant Cal helping Cal while Ual helps Ual. The whole divisiveness thing and yada yada. If this happens once or twice it is bad but not systemic and shouldn't be thought of as a rampant issue. We had a few that try to go for the gold. Some win and some lose. However doing it unethically is the root issue. One guy with the fatigue calls was being very unethical and he was feeling the heat so he back off. He wanted Den CA so badly that it was clouding his judgement.
Flyby,
You have had some of the best posts on APC, please keep it that way.
If our company is so incredibly screwed up on training scheduling that they are down to the wire by one or two days of contractual limits, how can we say it is the pilot that is being unethical? He is just exercising his seniority and contract. The company does not bend the contract for a few hundred dollars of extra pilot pay even when it cost them over a million (saw this first hand), why should we?
That same pilot likely watched the company shift the DEN flying he once did, back to the 737 he once flew, while not being able to bid on any of those slots. He would likely tell us that was unethical.
None of our pilots should ever fear discipline or termination for a fatigue or sick call…
Once again I have deeply appreciate your contributions here, and would likely have blown right by all of this if it had come from anyone else.
Your sir have been a class act, and I hope you stay that way.
This whole ISL issue will work itself out in time, and that DEN pilot just helped the process out by moving the re-balancing process along.
We our in this together.
All the best,
SP