Originally Posted by
Jetalc
Careful about pointing fingers...
1. It's "etc." not "ect."
2. It's "spouting", not "spounting".
3. It's "Hawaiian", not "Hawaiin".
4. It's "proofread", not "proof read".
It takes just 1 minute to proofread.
One takeaway from your post that I do agree with is that IF we can keep our current work rules with those pay rates, it does not completely suck. I remember reading somewhere about the Spirit TA that even lineholders can be kept at the airport for up to two hours after a trip for possible reassignment. That type of crap won't fly with me.
So there is rescheduling language in the Spirit TA. Here are the details with the entire "stay 2 extra hours after your trip"
-Yes, at the completion of any scheduled duty, the company can notify a pilot (phone of record is the only way to notify a pilot as it has to be recorded) to remain at the airport for a possible rescheduling.
-If they do, its 2 hours pay above guarantee instantly, even if they dont use the pilot or you leave 1 minute after
-If they reschedule you, you are paid the above 2 hours regardless, as mentioned, and 1 minute pay for every 2 minutes, either leading into rest or block out for the next trip.
Example. You are on a 3 day trip. You land at MSP for your first overnight. Your phone rings and you say "sure, ill answer." They tell you they have rescheduled you to fly to ORD now and overnight there, the flight leaves in 3 hours. You get the 2 hours pay plus 1/2 pay for every minute after 2 hours leading up to push of the ORD flight.
If you are rescheduled and 2 hours into it you think "wow, sitting in the airport is tiresome, I dont think I can do this flight." You can call in fatigued, pay protected under new LOA for fatigue, and keep you 2 hours of rescheduling pay as well.
Example. You finish a 3 day in your base of FLL. You get off the plane and your phone rings, you answer for some insane reason. If they want to reschedule you, they have to have you back in base within no later than 4 hours of your original trip end period, which essentially was at that moment+4hours, because you just finished a trip. The number of trips we have in the system that they could put you on, board, fly, return and have the 30 minute block out time, and be within 4 hours, is limited.
If rescheduled into a red eye, that duty period is paid 200%
If rescheduled and for some reason you cant get home at original trip duty period +4 (plane breaks last leg, wx cancelation etc) you are paid 200% for the entire duty period the next day to get you home (10 hours pay)
If rescheduled to do a 3 day and the last overnight is in SEA. And on that day to come home, it must comply with your release being original trip end+4. And a freak snow storm comes in and everything is snowed in. You cant get out that day and have to get home tomorrow. The above example of 200% for the extra day applies. Now lets say its really bad and the airport is shut down and it takes you into your second day off to get home, now the entire pairing is paid at 200%. So a 4 day rescheduled trip at 25 hours now is 2 extra duty periods, 35 hours. And the second day because of the snow storm makes the entire trip 200%, so it pays 70 hours. Close to $15k pay for CAs, more for many.
The rescheduling thing is not ideal, no doubt. But it was clear this was a MUST from the company and I think the NC did a decent job is obtaining premium pay throughout the rescheduling language.
And in the end...
1)You can always call in fatigued if you are tired and a wait of any kind caused that. You are 100% pay protected.
2)As confirmed, positive contact for any assignment is from scheduling to phone of record on a recorded line. Don't be a fool and answer your phone if you dont want to be rescheduled. ACARS, OPs, other crew member does not constitute a reschedule.
Im not affiliated with the union at all. But I did take the time to read the info provided, read the TA, and the examples, and have asked the NC/LEC a few questions for clarification. I hope all of our pilots at least learn the language and they can vote however they want based on that.