Originally Posted by
TegridyFarms
It’s stupid. This is their new game and has been standard practice for about a year. I know, dumb dumb dumb. Go. Sign in. Call the LCA. Tell him you’re at the airport. He will tell you to go home.
If you have some big kahunas on you, stay home and call the check airman. Tell him you’re gonna be 15 min late, ask if he wants you to come to the plane. He will tell you you’re released.
A friend of mine might have done that. I don’t know though. Or maybe someone else did it. I can’t remember.
I literally was on my commute to NYC to get "released" when I checked my schedule and the student FO was all of a sudden gone off the trip and I ended up flying it. Definitely HUGE Kahunas to not show up if they aren't releasing the night before.