Originally Posted by
HercTank
Learned a dirty side of our fellow pilot group today and wondering what can be done about it.
Short notice Green Slip pops up in MiCrew and I’m watching it and can barely make report as a short distance commuter but could still make it. Then it goes away and I check Daily Trip Coverage and although I was legal for it and hadn’t had Green Slip #1 yet, this guy gets awarded the trip as GS#2. So I start digging.
I call crew scheduling and they don’t tell me why he got it, just that he did. Then I get in touch with someone from DALPA scheduling and they are able to get the phone tapes and confirm this guy called CS and said since he lives 15 minutes from JFK he can do it. He called CS and cut the rest of us off at the knees!!
Now I may not have gotten it anyway as someone senior to me may have accepted it but this is bull crap!
I then call Pro Standards and although he agreed this is horse**** practice by our fellow pilots it’s not at their level and best advice is I call him and call him out. What good is that going to do?
Can we compile a list of these people that do that just as you would a scab during a strike? One way or another I want this scab to know we are all watching him.
Best part, it was an empty charter ferry for a trip tomorrow so no passengers were left waiting at an airport or inconvenienced.
What about my favorite that happened a few years back:
LCA and two FO's on WB 3 day trip post PCS
Week out from trip and Cappy IOE gets added to the trip, by some miraculous occurrence, I'm the senior FO
48hrs out, I check ICREW and prepare for a free 3 days off which should include two rounds of golf.
24hrs out, I check schedule again and, boom, I"m now waaaaay junior to new "other" FO
I see on trip coverage that this is result of very recent PS
I msg other FO and asked what gives, he says out of the blue, senior FO contacts him and offers him an FCO turn as a swap, so he said "sure".
When I get to brief (after canceling my tee times) I ask the LCA about this and he says, yep, know the FO by name and it "actually happens that way quite a bit"
There's nothing "illegal" or "uncontractural" about this practice, but pilot wh#$@es are gonna be wh$^#es.