Originally Posted by
Airfix
Is it a contract violation if while on reserve the company doesn't honor your yellow slip "if required to fly" preferences?
I yellow slipped a specific trip and it was awarded to a junior pilot an hour or so before they award me another trip i didn't want that had a mid trip redeye.
I'm just not sure if that constitutes a contract violation and I don't want to submit st in the ACEs app to minimize unnecessary work for the union.
Cheers
Airfix
This happens ALL THE TIME. Feel free to research it with a call to scheduling. What’s most likely is the trip you got didn’t exist at the time they pulled the trip coverage report for trip you “wanted”. Some time after that report was run (and covered), your crappy trip became uncovered and of course the junior pilot is no longer available for assignment. Reserve if-needed yellow slips are always a gamble. Sometimes you have to go ugly early with an actual yellow slip. And with 2-days-prior coverage under the new contract, the gambles will only become more uncertain.