Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
Sure there's a downside. If we had a hard 2 hour requirement (that BOTH sides would have to adhere to) the 45 minute callout would be a thing of the past and the SC pilot in question...or any other SC pilot...wouldn't even be called to begin with...OR the company would be compelled to post a departure time at least two hours later in order to legally assign the trip to this pilot. As it is, as far as I'm concerned every time they call a SC pilot for a trip reporting less than two hours out, they're getting a SC pilot for "free". That's not necessarily good either.
That said, I am NOT advocating for a hard two hour SC response time, or any other specific time, for all the reasons we know. Any slight benefit would be greatly overshadowed by the drawbacks.
my last job was a fixed 2 hour callout and I still got called with a “flight is waiting on you, how soon can you get there” or “can you be there in :45?” of several occasions. Mind you if I said yes to the second question that became binding and I was held to that time, even though we had a 2 hour callout.
if they call here with a :45 callout and it takes me 2 hours it’s no sweat off my back just like my last job, but if it takes 2:05, it would have been an issue where as now that would still be considered promptly available.
We should definitely keep our language unless we get something better in exchange for a hard callout time.