Originally Posted by
gloopy
However DALPA does it, 100% of all trip coverages, RR's, GS's, PB/PR days and other things needs to be automatically audited and reviewed. If they can do it with a program, great. If it has to be manually reviewed, so be it. I bet airlines save billions over the decades playing the "deny deny deny" game knowing that every single pilot can't catch it every single time. Worst case they only pay what they should have paid, best case they pocket it. We can't depend on individual pilots being complete CBA experts and catching everything, or even knowing when to flag everything. Especially when sometimes a cascade of pay protections is missed because one pilot upstream wasn't a CBA expert and didn't know something should be flagged. Some things should be 100% automatically reviewed. If it costs us 0.05% dues money to properly do it, so be it.
How many people do you think DALPA would need to hire to accomplish what you post? The dues refund check you just got would have been notice of a required substantial supplementary payment. Many issues can take hours to research. If someone is smart enough to fly airplanes for Delta they should be able to research their issues and if in doubt use the current options to clear up anything unresolved.