Originally Posted by
cessna157
Just today I witnessed a crewmember call scheduling and demand to be moved up to an earlier deadhead, so they could get home sooner. The flight was already oversold with revenue passengers, but this person demanded to bump a passenger so they could go home. This change put them on reduced rest for the night. After they got off the phone with scheduling, they said if they get tagged when they get back to CVG and not get to go home, they'll just call in fatigued.
It's stupid **** like this that give us crew members a bad name.
With the information provided, I do not see anything wrong with this situation. Our contract says first DH scheduled within 2 hours of the end of the assignment. Reduced rest is unfortunate. Being fatigued after a reduced rest is likely.
Everything here is legal. Its not right, but it is legal. Scheduling does the same thing to us and I am OK with that.