Originally Posted by
PT6flyer
Who cares. It's weather, they know it's coming, bring 4 extra schedulers in and pay them time and a half. 3 hours is stupid 3 hours with a reassignment and NO hotel is neglect. You'd be in an office if you delayed one flight 3 hours, never mind every leg.
If guys are in station, following the FOM exactly, they should be on their way home already if not already there. If this was msp or dtw every endeavor pilot would be at home before the roads closed and that'd be the LAST time scheduling would be allowed to fail. Its NY, 90% commuter, so everyone is stuck and hostage.
If the hotel issues are that bad you guys should grieve it. If enough pilots put in for it, and the union pushes it, the price of 6 or 10 extra guys on the phone or holding apis hand and this crap will stop and it'll be cheaper than paying every pilot 2-6 hours for their j-off session with scheduling.
Indeed. It seems negligent to allow your operation to implode because you will not spend a trivial amount of money on extra schedulers when they are needed. This sort of carelessness should not continue for months and years, and when it does, it undermines the culture, the leadership, and everything the leadership says. You have to acknowledge your weakness and address it; thats exactly what we do with FOQA, for example.