Originally Posted by
symbian simian
It is because the way we get paid is stupid. We only get paid when we move. Never mind we work a lot harder during a turn than in cruise.
Regular pay should start at scheduled departure time -:30, and end at actual/scheduled arrival +:15 for every individual leg. Any requirement to do more, engine run, repo, jetway doesn't work but cargo door is opened, stay to run the APU in FLL/clean the back (WTF), aso should be extra.
Reason it won't happen: Company doesn't want it, and legacy senior WB don't want it.
Agree with all of your observations. Jacob S actually put me on the team of folks to install the automated OOOI system on the -9's while beginning to lease out those fancy -80's (we used to call in the OOOI's to the station). Seeing the peril of being associated with such a pogram (spelled intentionally), I pulled the old teen age trick of "do your job so ineptly, no one asked you to participate in the chore any further", and went back to hiding in the training center.
We started off with being paid with main cabin door shut and monkeying with the parking brake, but Jacob must have gotten a call from Fang, recently parachuting (who visited Jacob prior to his selling to Indigo) from AA or from Steven Wolf (nice taste in sailboats) and it was quickly changed to wheel movement only with ALPA being impotent, with bigger fish to fry at the time.
Anyway, I was actually asking if a JB guy would answer.
Is the cabin cleanup documented as a requirement in your FOM? or is it just "we've always done it this way to be Team Players".
If there is one thing I've learned from my 88 year old MIL is that Judge Judy requires everything in writing, but from my observations, contract negotiations, NOI investigations, can use historic acceptance of unwritten duties as precedent.