Originally Posted by
chihuahua
What do they do for junior manning people? You pull into the gate from your single turn and get told you have a second turn now? Call people on their days off? (everyone should know not to answer the phone on their day off, unless they want to work) Or do they go in after awards come out and put stuff on people's schedules or something ridiculous like that?
I’ll give you a recent example.
CA “A” was called at 4 am on reserve and told they were being put back on rest immediately to work a PM turn.
Meanwhile the day before, the company calls FO B and asks them to work the AM turn because of staffing. The FO agrees because this makes their day commutable. They then attempt to assign the PM turn to FO C, but that FO was on AM reserve thus making them not legal to work the full turn for duty limits.
Because the company has no idea what they are doing, they message FO B in the downwind to tell them that they are going to fly trip #1 to deadhead out and fly the leg back. So FO B misses their commute home and works a max duty day, FO C works one leg out and deadheads back, CA A is flying fatigued meanwhile.
Meanwhile the company has plenty of PM reserves to cover all of this. Now you have another two FO’s ready to quit.