Originally Posted by
Ar Pilot
What you’re doing is perfectly fine and appreciated. There are obviously a lot of things that aren’t transparent to line pilots. A record of contact is very helpful given our response timeline and backlog. We understand pilots do not trust the company and we are the backstop for compliance.
That’s the way I handle it personally. But I have to wonder how many pilots stop short of ACEing every probable violation, thereby letting more violations slip through the cracks, simply because of ALPA’s oft-repeated message of using ACE as a last resort.
That messaging has been inconsistent as well. I’ve heard scheduling committee members recommend filing an ACE report for every reroute, and others suggest that it should only be used as a last resort. Every reroute is prone to multiple different types of violations and pay issues, and unfortunately those issues have only become more prevalent over time. Ideally ALPA will commit enough resources to verifying every single reroute.
I do know that everyone on the scheduling committee is working extremely hard every day. I appreciate and respect that. I’m simply suggesting that it’s time to devote more funding and resources toward expanding that team, at least until we can get more enforcement automation in place.