Originally Posted by
Mattio
Wow, I've already found a lot of "gotchas" in the TA but I missed that one, Q. The Definitions include a description of Positive Contact and two-way communications over Jetcrw are one form of positive contact. In the reserve section it says they have to make a "positive contact attempt" so if they attempt to notify you through jetcrw it seems like your scenario could actually happen. I also turn off notifications on my phone sometimes but leave the ringer on so I only get woken up by something important... on the flip side I don't know if anyone has a long enough notification chime option to wake them up from a deep slumber...
If I were a BJ lawyer, F&H, a corrupt arbitrator (all of them), or Bozo, I would have a field day finding loopholes in EVERY section of the TA to exploit to benefit my bottom line. Even the commuter policy that says "no discipline will be...." has an escape clause where the pilot is responsible for "adequate planning" yet again doesn't define "adequate planning". By their reasoning, you should've shown up 3 days in advance of your reserve pairing because you should have been planning for that freak snowstorm or line of thunderstorms. Again... a legal weakness for the lawyers to exploit.
I mention this example because similar scenarios have already happened in real life. BJ exploited the lack of definition of positive contact to the detriment of the pilot, who was royally punished.
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