Originally Posted by
JetPilotDaddy
This is the question I'd love answered: If Bob (senior papa in base) has the first two weeks of the month off and a blanket GS in, and CS just goes to IA 4 times over that period, does Bob get all 4 'senior eligible pilot paid' or does it work like a GS1 and they can't get another until others below get some free money?
How it should work is:
CS initiates coverage, that process runs through all the steps on the ladder…. If at any time they (CS) abandon the coverage ladder and use reroute or IA to cover the flight, so be it. But, the ARCOS coverage should continue, and the first pilot to accept the trip (that was already covered) gets pay protection. Not just the senior pilot, but the senior pilot who actually accepted/acknowledges the trip via ARCOS. I think that would generate some much needed transparency in the trip coverage.
Maybe it’s time for some union representatives to sit in crew scheduling and observe, perhaps abandoning the coverage ladder should require union notification and concurrence…in real time. There’s no telling how much $ we could capture, that currently takes months to recover.