Originally Posted by
AV82SKI
The bad news is that you are considered a visiting reserve. One of the dumber items in the contract. 20-H-7. As a visiting reserve you are Step 1 when assigning open parings (20-I-4).
The good news is that it looks as if the trip was assigned without being open for four hours and not in the assignment window (11am the day prior). I'm guessing there might be another provision covering your scenario or scheduling is making it up on the fly.
Please file a PDR for an accurate response.
1. PDR Filed. And yes 20-I-4 would apply but 20-I-1 says the trip is not assignable until 1300, thus it should be put in open time. Now the part you can't make up.
I called the crew desk and they threw out what you said. I said the trip needed to be in open time both for a line holder and a local reserve to pick up. I quoted the contract(20-I-1).After being put on hold for almost 15 min, a walk from terminal B-C and a walk around she came back. She said,
"The pairing was in open time(I never looked because it was another domicile)and then we pulled it from open time. Once we pull it, it belongs to us(the company) and we can do with it as we please."
I said where's the reference for that. You can call a trip whatever u want, but when it comes open prior to 11 am the previous day, it stays in open time. A one day 8 hour trip one day prior to the super bowl...... it would've been picked up in a heart beat by either a line holder or reserve. I've never heard of the crew desk having the power to cancel a pairing and then saying we own it and can do with it as we please. Short notice yes, but not this far in advance.
If they were so sure of themselves, they wouldn't have put me on hold for 15 min to come up with that excuse. And the kicker to all this, the other pilot flying with me had the exact same thing happen only a different ID. VISITING RESERVE MY A#%