Originally Posted by
The Juice
Agree 100%
As soon as the first ACARS message went out, asking to file our own flight plans, the Union should have sent a blast email out to 1)Show support for any CA that refuses to file their own flightplan, as it possibly violates our FOM and 2) Notify the pilots that Ackerman will be on a flight this morning to Miramar to request a meeting with top level management to deal with this.
Im sure there is a lot of back and forth emailing within the MEC over this, but the silence is starting to remind me of the past MEC. At least the prior MEC didnt promise more communication, unlike this quiet MEC is doing.
I'm no fan of the MEC.. But how can you just assume they knew what was going on from the very first acars? From all my experience this company has always been stubborn to say, "we got it, don't want your help" instead of volunteering any information to the union.
So I blame the membership for their failure to contact their LEC rep if they got a message.
And yes please do file an ASAP. Hopefully the FAA will how bad it really was and do something about it.