Originally Posted by
MFan97
Thanks, I was working with the old scheduling reference handbook. I see that it does go into depth about asterisk rotations now, but I still didn't read anything that, to me, implied that they can just drop it on a whim.
How I'm reading it is that it may be dropped for any PWA/FAR violations (of which there is none in my case), or if it contains a flight segment with a different flight#, within the same duty period, between the two bid periods. Pertaining to duty periods, I don't see where it mentions that they can just drop an entire duty period.
As I'm not proficient in legalese, I'm probably just reading it incorrectly, but still seems like a bizarre and fishy thing to do at any rate...
For this one, you also have to look at the actual PWA. I did a quick search on "asterisk" and got 17 hits. What it talks about is they can change or even delete the trip but that you are pay protected for the current bid period.
The majority of our protections appear to be preventing the company from extending these trips. If you want a more in depth explanation call the DALPA offices or send them an email at
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