Originally Posted by
pinseeker
You say this, but then say you agree with Alder. Maybe you should title this writing by idiots.
When you check both boxes, you are saying that you are deviating both legs. When you check the box for the first leg, you are saying that you are only deviating on that leg and intend to take the scheduled second leg. Before this contract, there was only one box to check. If it doesn't matter how many boxes you check, why did they add a second box?
I'll say again, Alder may be right. And I'll say again, why not just check the appropriate boxes. I've called CRS when connecting to the second leg and things went bad. I've never been told I was deviating, maybe because I only check the box that says I am deviating on the first leg.
Dude, you keep missing the entire point of the discussion. None of this has anything to do with the boxes. If they are checked or not checked. It does not matter. If you are deviating, however you checked the boxes, and you are standing in the departure gate for the scheduled DH, if you can get a ticket on that flight, then you can call scheduling and do final check-in. Once you do that you are no longer deviating. You have all the protection in place just like if you did not deviate. If you cannot get a ticket on that flight, then you are still deviating as you cannot join the scheduled DH.
Scheduling does not want to fix the problem if the scheduled DH changes, so they are telling the young guys they are on their own. Nothing new here, Scheduling has been trying to get us to solve offline transportation cancels, changes, WX, MX, etc for years. If something changes on your scheduled DH, you just call Scheduling, let them know and then go get lunch while you wait for them to fix it.