Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
That's the problem. Everyone thinks what he is doing is wrong, but is too lazy or uninformed to look it up. Airlines are able to create nonrevenue flights without any input from ALPA. Airlines can pick pilots for these flights. I will ask this again, who do you think performs delivery flights, flights to air shows, or flights to colleges for pilot recruitment? This idea that Envoy has to offer every line pilot the same opportunity is false. What Swayne is doing is outside of revenue flying and is not subject to ALPA. Do you also claim unfairness when Envoy picks pilots to conduct interviews?
So again, I do not care about SM or his videos. I simply posted some ideas based off of our contract that might help somebody else figure out a better argument against his videos. I think I read earlier that you are not a part of envoy and don’t have our contract. We’ve got some different OT rules than the norm, and while you are correct that the airline can create flights at their leisure I was simply stating that there could possibly be an argument that it goes against the contract when assigning said OT trips for his filming purposes as he is not a management pilot. Maybe you do not know this but the pilots who do interviews are designated to work in the recruitment office and are not normal line pilots who are randomly asked to come in on a day off to conduct interviews. Maybe you also do not know this but delivery flights are usually picked up from the factory by, you guessed it, pilots designated as management pilots (meaning that they have special designation and another job title other than line pilot) or by pilots on reserve in accordance with the reserve rules outlined in the, you guessed it again, ALPA contract. So nonrevenue flying here actually does fall under the ALPA contract to an extent.
Everyone
thinks they know everything about everything until they realize that they don’t.