Originally Posted by Xray678

I will use the jumpseat when I see fit. Nothing in the contract says we can't. I don't have a problem with how individuals choose to enforce the contract. The contract is there to protect you, ie the company cannot force you to ride the jumpseat on a DH leg, but it does not say I can't ride the jumpseat. Same with the duty day. The company cannot force me beyond a certain point, but within the FARs, if I choose to go beyond the contractual duty day so I can get home vs being stuck on a layover, then that's what I will do.

If ALPA is that concerned with the contract, take it out of the pilots hands. Put it in writing that a pilot has to comply with every section of the contact, no matter what.