Originally Posted by
TCMC17RES
Thanks all!!. I called with the reference above and the trip had been reassigned appropriately. We need to watch them, not because I need to not fly, but they can't get more efficiency out of a contact without paying for it. I see the scheduling point in wanting to preserve their short called pilot, but that is not the contract despite my being told "well, that's how we do it".
I had a similar thing happen to me but I was jr in bucket 2 and they gave the trip to me instead of a sr pilot in bucket 1. I called and they fixed it. I called ALPA after the fact and they told me that if I flew the trip I'd have been owed assignment pay.
Last edited by MikeF16; 04-09-2016 at 02:20 PM.
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