Originally Posted by
BlueSkies
Exactly. You have to ask yourself why the regular line pilot doesn't have access to this info at DAL. The only reasonable answer I can come up with is that it would cost the Co. money because more pilots would catch mistakes.
Here's another question, why doesn't DAL automate more of the trip construction process? If there are so many problems with illegally constructed rotations (most probably being honest mistakes by overworked schedulers) how about you automate it so it must follow the PWA. I think a major corporation like DAL could pull that off.
I think if pilots saw just how many illegal rotations and illegal reroutes were going out on a daily basis they would be shocked.. The illegal reroutes are the hardest to track because we don't have the information available to us too fully back track a rotation.. So many illegal reroutes go out because the uncovered trip was know about more than 14 hours out and instead of properly covering the trip through the correct trip coverage sequence, they just reroute pilots. That is very difficult for the line pilots to track..As I have said before, now an ALPA rep works in scheduling and that is a joke. He basically saves the company some money catching a few illegal trips..In return, this takes money from the pilots because they would have received reroute pay(1000s of dollars per illegal reroute in most cases).