Originally Posted by
Cookenbauer
Absurd. I will not make the same mistake. There are some instances were extensions make sense. Outlying airfield and getting back is logistically smarter and there happens to be good weather. Crew tracking and dispatch kept praying and hoping we would get off on time so it wouldn't be their problem anymore.
Long story short, they should have been more proactive on getting a reserve crew, green slip, etc ready...and they ended up delaying the flight even more because they had to wait on a new crew. Some poor crew got rerouted to take our flight.
My objection to taking the fdp had nothing to do with fatigue (at the moment...although it was a LONG day) but rather that the idea of pushing it was borderline unsafe.
Might want to spend some time in dispatch getting to know exactly what a dispatcher does. I guarantee your dispatcher was neither praying nor hoping either way, it's a crew tracking function. Period. Might want to get to know what the only other represented work group on property
actually does before you lump them in with "the Man". Trust me, you have a bigger ally in your dispatcher than you think you do.