Originally Posted by
MainlineFlyer
Whats to keep them from just openly violating our contract? Remember, according to our own union they can do this and the arbitrator will definitely, 100% rule against us.
A simple call to crew services saying “this pairing is not contractually complaint” would likely suffice…has worked for me the times it’s happened. If it doesn’t, then “ok, well there’s a good chance if I have to do more than 4 legs I’ll be fatigued, just as a heads up” should do the trick. If that doesn’t work, then after leg 4, another call saying “ok, well as i predicted, I’m fatigued” after leg 4 would take care of the rest. And there’s zero way a contractually noncompliant pairing causing fatigue would be the pilot’s fault, so it would be pay protected. Easy.