Originally Posted by
ImperialxRat
I am new here, and I know I should probably just call my rep and ask this, but since you brought up scheduling I was wondering why we haven't cancelled some of these MOU's.
The MOU where we cannot trade a trip if it has more than a 4 hour start time difference... it says either party may cancel it with 30 days notice. I had an afternoon 3-day trip and was trying to trade for a morning 3-day trip on the exact same days. Reserve coverage was NEGATIVE in the morning and positive in the afternoon so it would have actually benefited the company!... denied due to the MOU.
It seems ridiculous to me... the only thing that should affect trading is reserve coverage.
The intent of this MOU was to free up trip trading since in the past, emaestro/crew scheduling would deny a great majority of trade requests in the name of "lack of reserve coverage". It worked for a little while, that is, until Crew Access (aka Crew NoAccess) came along. The company and the author of Crew NoAccess programed this sodomizer to deny any and all trades that do not meet the MOU criteria. So in essence, the company took this MOU which was designed to enhance our QOL and turned it into yet another anti-pilot weapon of destruction. I'm not against PBS but could you imagine what this company will do if we hand them the keys to PBS or any other scheduling venue?