Originally Posted by
FlyPurdue
I have a question on a kind of confusing IOE displacement...
I am ORD based (but live in DFW), and successfully traded a 2-day in ORD, for a 2-day in DFW (same days). Yesterday, I added a turn to the end of my DFW 2 day for 150%.
This afternoon, I was notified that I was displaced from my DFW 2-day (+OT) for IOE.
My questions are as follows:
1. Do I have any 'right' that when they add flying back to my schedule that it has to be in DFW, despite being ORD based? 11.E.1.j seems to indicate that they need to start me in DFW.
2. How do i make sure that I am pay protected for the OT?
3. If I were to decide to not be pay protected to the OT, does that mean I am only good on the last day till my original end time +3 hours?
Thanks for the guidance!
These are definitely read the contract and ask the union reps type questions but will add something from personal experience that’s similar to one of the questions. I was doing TDY in LGA last fall but DFW based. I was displaced from a trip that started in my TDY month from LGA but continued three days into my non-TDY month where DFW based and on reserve.
First day of the trip, no reasignment. Second day of the trip (and now in new contractual month), no reasignement at the noon prior day point but later in the day I opened quicktrade to look for OT opportunites and noticed I had been tagged with a RAP 2 in DFW for that second day. Knowing that was innappropriate, I called CS and complained and was given the day off (I’m pretty sure it was not intentional, just a mistake with the transition). Third and fourth day, I was reasigned a two day LGA trip but started and finished with a deadhead from/to DFW. Pretty sure that was innapriate too under the deadhead rules of the time but I didn’t complain with that one, lol.
These odd situations can trip up CS too so just know the contract and be ready to reference the appropriate sections when needed and sometimes their mistakes will benefit you. ;-)