Originally Posted by
DLax85
I haven't seen it play out this way.
What I've seen is the published "accepted fare" in the bid pack is below what the company can actually purchase the ticket for a day or two before the trip because the airlines may have increased the price since the bid pack was published.
The only way the "accepted fare" will go up is if someone on the crew does NOT deviate thus forcing the company to pay the higher fare.
Then the you must show this documentation and get the accepted fare raised for the whole crew.
If no one actually deviates, the accepted fare remains unchanged, even though the company knows they cannot get a ticket back to MEM for that amount.
DLax,
FDXLAG has is it right. I worked with DT (contract enforcement) too. He said it is a problem we ID'd from the 1999 contract but did not fix in the current contract. He claims the company is not required to have any discernable method of establishing accepted fares and we have no recourse.
I worked with crew audit and they plainly explained the only way to adjust the accepted fare higher is to fly the DH as scheduled. If you deviate it bumps back down. It doesn't pass the logic or smell test but that is how the company is doing it. It has nothing to do with the number of crewmembers deviating.