Originally Posted by
PhantomHawk
Calling in fatigued because you don’t want to be inconvenienced is a good way to jack up the fatigue system. Be a man and refuse the flight, then face the consequences. Or....be a professional and do your job, accepting that sometimes your schedule gets changed. Calling out fatigued when you’re not fatigued is a b*tch move.
You don't get it. If it's been a jacked up day and now you are waiting hours to finish up a turn that's the last 2 legs of your trip and you know you're going to be fatigued on the final leg back, why not call in preemptively? All the company cares about is completions, that's how they get payed. They don't care about you, me, or the paxs, just the completion.
If you go out on a turn and get to your destination and then call fatigued, just like another poster said, they will send you to a hotel and bring you back out to finish 10 hours later. How do you think the rest of your crew is going to enjoy going to the hotel and coming back out when it might have been their day off and with possibly no clothes if it was a local?
If another crew did that to me, I'd be furious!
That would be the b*tch move!