Originally Posted by
HardLemonade
Another tid bit I learned about scheduling: if you are on days off and have a trip on day 1, and you don't confirm said trip by 2100 they will just straight up remove the trip from your schedule and fling you back on RAP1 like a cheap piece of meat. Even if your sign in time is in the afternoon.
I called and went around in multiple circles with a scheduler over this. Apparently it's a new policy. Too many pilots weren't confirming their trips, forcing scheduling to call them at midnight. Ok...but that doesn't change anything if your sign in time is in the afternoon, right? Apparently that doesn't matter to scheduling. They just made this a blanket policy for anyone and everyone who doesn't confirm by 2100.
Nothing new about that. They did a similar thing to me a year ago... I proffered for a late starting 4 day and got it. Was planning to commute in the morning, but forgot to confirm the night before. I realized it after the proffering window closed and called scheduling at about 2200 and got the same response "sorry, you're RAP1 now" ...but the 4 day trip was still in open time. They wouldn't put it back on my schedule. I told them I won't be there for 4AM RAP because I commute and it's too late now, so go ahead and give me the MA now, or a trip I can actually cover...ran in circles a while longer, finally they agreed to give me a different trip that started later than 4AM so I could commute in, but still wouldn't give me the original trip I proffered for, even though it was still open! I don't get it.