In a previous life, I was a scheduling committee volunteer, did it on my own time, no FPL... it FORCED me to know the contract intimately. After we got frustrated with the company schedulers started “freelancing “ when they had to solve problems, our union started putting a union rep in OCC, all day, every day to watch the schedulers. Sound familiar? I did that work, it was tedious and boring at times. But, when a scheduler rerouted someone, or tagged a reserve with a trip that the crew member thought was inappropriate, all they had to do was say “transfer me to the union rep, and I answered the line, I had full access to the company schedulers system and notes... I could verify the trip legality and look at the bigger picture for fatigue issues. Most often, I had to tell them to put their big girl panties on and go fly the trip. Occasionally we coordinate with the company schedulers and compromise.

My point is that having a rep in scheduling may not be a bad thing. They don’t need to do the company’s job for them, and it will usually cause a scheduler to think twice before “freelancing”


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