Originally Posted by baseball

well, I decided to sell two HDO and convert to VDO.

Scheduler called me and asked me if I could make it happen.

I decided to do it to pay for a new set of tires...blah blah blah....

Anyway. before the trip, my pay was at 79:32. After the trip, it was still sitting at 79:32. Filed PDR with union. numerous phone calls to scheduler, scheduler supervisor, crew pay and chief pilots office. scheduler feels they can simply move days off (two) of them, and doesn't want to now pay for my two days. You think I am ever going to do this again?????No way. No way. We need a separate LOA to cover this provision otherwise its total garbage. Three days now of fighting for my pay. The way I see it they owe me 4 hours for each day, which is 8 hours for a two day trip, plus the fifty percent add pay which was about 6 hours as the trip was worth 12ish and change. The add pay shows up, but thats all. Chief Pilot is frustrated with crew pay. I filed 3 pay claims and I will continue to file pay claims, but short of that and a PDR I don't know what else I should do.

On the bigger picture, can someone explain to me why our pay system is totally top secret? I should be able to transparently understand and view all pay transactions so that I can see compliance with the contract and so that I can see if my pay is right. We need ALPA to get a better pay system. How much money are we losing as a pilot group because of things like this?