Originally Posted by
fcoolaiddrinker
Correct. That didn’t change. The new agreement just eliminated 1.25% and made it a free for all on the 1.5%. Basically relieved crew scheduling from having to make a bunch of phone calls. Those phone calls were a major driver of disputes as they tended to make mistakes frequently. Some mistakes were due to lack of contractual knowledge and some due to the language itself (gray areas). IMO it’s better now that we took crew scheduling out of the loop on premium. All they can do now is add inc. which is a good thing.
It’s not a good thing for many reasons... the first being it undermines seniority... junior manning is supposed to run through the seniority list in order and then in reverse order... so now it’s basically whoever is fastest with a phone or a mouse... that’s bs... second, it relieves the company of actually having to work through their fukk ups... now they get to throw it in a folder and not think twice about it... we bailed the company out with this one... third... you’re absolutely correct... it did drive grievances and disputes... and a lot of pilots were paid a lot of money because of their incompetence, myself included... I tried to dispute an illegal pairing that was put in the premium folder and I was told to pound sand... this contract bailed the company out in so many ways and this is a big part of it... everyone said “we deserve more, we’ve earned it”... well we got the what we asked for and this turd is exactly what we deserve