Originally Posted by
FDXLAG
It is not a vote in the traditional sense if 1 person can overrule the opinion of 100 people. If that were the case we would never have a winner.
As for your analogy. Lets say the company wants to fly EWR-BOS-IND with scheduled 2.5 hour turns and a 10 hour duty day. In reallty it ends up 13 hour duty days. The SIG disputes it and no one picks it up. Next month the company slaps a 48 hour layover and DH on each end. The sequence gets picked up everytime. The dispute is lost. Guess what happens to those deadheads and layovers two months down the road.
Which is exactly why
sequence EWR-BOS-IND, with its 2.5hr turns, needs to be disputed, not
trip 6969 and its 100hr layovers in Times Square, front and
analend DH's, those are red herrings. And when the 10hr duty days go to 13hrs based on company issues (unrealistic turns, unrealistic ground times, aircraft position, or whatever else could go in this category), that extra should turn into 150% somewhere else in the contract. Think about using the entire alphabet, not just the letters D and P.