Originally Posted by
threeighteen
Previously one could buy a first class ticket without doing a mid trip deviation and the expense report people would not care. Now they care. That is a status quo violation. The contract only gives them the right to change the approvals of mid trip deviation amounts but does not give them the right to change the status quo of no longer allowing people to upgrade to first outside of getting mid trip deviation approval.
Choosing not to do draft/ava is not a violation of status quo, but encouraging others not too or lambasting those that do can get you in trouble for status quo violations and harassment respectively.
How is that a status quo violation. If you did not get approval for a mid-trip deviation, yet purchased a ticket different than the scheduled flight, you didn't have approval to purchase that ticket. The contract states that you must get approval for a mid-trip deviation. They are simply following the language of the contract. If you can prove that the only reason that this has changed is because we are in section six negotiations for the purpose of putting pressure on the pilots, then it would be a status quo violation. Just like not picking up trips or draft by itself isn't a status quo violation. Per the contract, it is an individual decision. If you chose not to fly any additional trips, that is your choice. If the company can prove there was a coordinated effort to influence pilots not to fly extra trips in order to put pressure on the company during negotiations, then it becomes a status quo violation.