Originally Posted by
FDXLAG
How can you logically argue EWR-BOS-IND is a grueling duty day with a legal rest period in front but not grueling if you put a good deal in front? Bottomline in Cuba your one vote can cancel out the rest of the crew force but here it shouldn't. 90% of us voted for the last contract with this disputed pairing format. But it will only work if 100% of us support it. You want it improved so do I, but right now this is what we got.
LAG, EWR-BOS-IND was your example. How do you get a scheduled 10hr duty day from one 2.5hr turn in BOS? Anyway, not to drag this out because nothing is really solved on this board, only vented. The FDA LOA is recent evidence of that. 90% of us, I included, voted on the contract and this DP format. The thing is, your above example probably (more detail would be needed) complies with that same contract regardless of deadheads and layover length. I've can't remember a recent SIG note that said "Disputed Pairing XX is in direct violation of the contract." One thing this FDA funny business should teach us for the next time around is that if it's not spelled out in black and white, it's gray. And gray is an opportunity for the company to stick it to us, again. Dude, I'm sorry, happy hour is approaching and I'm out. Hope to fly with you one day.