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Airfix
Yeah there is no point ever getting upset on the phone to anybody. It just undermines your position.
The other thing I think I saw schedulers do today that night be illegal is this:
I had another GS in today for a 2 day rotation on my PB day. About 4 hours before the rotation signed in I got called for an IA for that very same rotation. I impulsively agreed knowing it wouldn't cost me an extra green slip that I might use later.
Anyway about 2 hours later, after the trip had been awarded to me as an IA I got an arcos greenslip notification for that very same trip.
It's like they were trying to cover their tracks as the GS should have gone through the arcos process before the IA. With the IA being assigned 4 hours out they had plenty of time to run it through more arcos batches.
Anyway I think I screwed myself because I don't see the section section 23.Q.6.c.exception language in the Inverse Assignment Section R. So I'll probably not get that 2 day reserve assignment dropped the day after I get in from my IA due to a compensatory PB day .
It's a complicated business trying to fly for as much money with as little work as possible!
Airfix
Schedulers have openly told people (myself included) that they have been running IA and GS coverage simultaneously.
I missed a GS recently because it had already been covered as an IA after I accepted it. Asked the scheduler to check to see if the proper pilot (hopefully me) was pay protected and he said it hadn’t been submitted to payroll to do so. He was nice and friendly about it and said he would submit it (he wasn’t the scheduler who assigned the IA). I submitted an ACE anyway.
Regardless of how they are running coverage, the fact that they haven’t been submitting the proper paperwork to pay protect the affected pilot is theft. How many times has no one caught it and submitted an ACE? I’ve so far been disappointed in the “meh” reaction from the union on this.