Originally Posted by
RV5M
Maybe your noise issue was really serious, but sometimes I can't sleep just because, and sometimes hotels are noisy. Last night, the fire door slammed twice and woke me up. That's life. I feel like there are a lot of pilots and FAs out there who will call CT at the slightest inconvenience when many times it's just the nature of doing a sometimes stressful job.
If "the fire door slamming and waking you up" resulted in you not getting 8 hours of consecutive rest, and you still flew the next day, then you've violated 117 rules and need to file an ASAP report.
"Sometimes hotels are noisy" = the noisy hotels should fix the problem or be eliminated from our hotel list.
The Doubletree TUL instituted curfew hours for the many groups of junior high/high school sports teams staying there this summer--specifically because of the "lot of pilots & FAs" who take these matters seriously and talk to hotel managers and the company until they fix the problem. That Doubletree is a great hotel--they listened to my suggestion and implemented it. Not hard--just have a spine and tell people what you require.
I don't know if you're a Captain or not, or how much 121 experience you have, but at some point in this career you have to realize this is not the military--you are not duty-bound to sacrifice your body/rest for the company, or to go above & beyond and volunteer to fly/etc..
A lot of people confuse the operational similarities of military service and 121 flying, and end up with a mindset that they need to just buck up and get the job done. All Airlines/Crew Schedulers know this, and take advantage of it when they smell it, because it lets them order you around like an obedient soldier...but this is not the military--you are not duty-bound to do anything outside the contract or regs. None of your Mesa bretheren are going to die if you reject a hotel or adjust your showtimes after a noisy/crappy hotel compromised your rest. No American lives will be lost if your MSY turn is delayed 38 minutes tomorrow morning.
Your post makes me think you have those two completely separate levels of obligation/moral duty mixed up. Maybe I'm wrong.