Originally Posted by
HIFLYR
He lost all creditably when he put this statement in his post!
“Regardless of class of service actually ticketed, a pilot’s deviation bank shall be credited with the baseline fare for the highest class of service which is authorized on the scheduled deadhead flight, and which exists on that flight.” The Negotiating Committee and the attorneys agree with this point.
When has this worked out for us, I believe the same thing was said about many things before but never goes our way! 380 pay rates come to mind!! Sadly we cannot count on the aggressive contract enforcement via grievances by our own legal team they always want a sure win or they will not fight.
I'd actually argue that not getting A380 pay rates was a blessing in disguise for this current negotiation because now every WB pilot A300/MD11/B767 at FedEx will make B777 industry leading rates. By splitting out the B777 into it's own rate the rest of the WB pilots at FedEx would be making less on this contract, and the only rate they would have pegged to be the industry leader would have been the B777. I believe that would have been the likely scenario.
Remember we turned down ULR at 11 hours when the B777 came on line because we had to improve the B777 rate. We ended up with neither so it didn't work out too well for us on that one...