Originally Posted by Adlerdriver

If by "we" you mean ALPA, I say again, no. It's not our union's job to rat out its members to the company. Nothing these pilots are doing is specifically prohibited in our contract or any company rules of which I'm aware. Are they violating the spirit of some of the provisions? (recycling OTP or using a collective effort to grab trips and re-distribute them within their pack) - Absolutely. But that's a vague standard that clearly the company is not interested in using to curtail this activity. An individual getting insider information from schedulers, especially if there's tangible favors involved, is probably crossing a line the company would be far less tolerant of. But proving that is probably not worth the potential fallout in terms of legal, justifiable methods of investigating that behavior versus benefit.

You're naive if you think they aren't fully aware of what's going on. The trips are getting flown and really, that's all that matters to them in the end. If ALPA decides to make this stop, it has to be done using negotiated language that defines acceptable limits. Pro-standards and our union leadership then have firm ground to stand on to police our own without getting management involved. It's a slippery slope when our own union starts getting involved in compiling data on its members for use by the company. I really don't think we want to go that direction, IMO.