Originally Posted by
Gspeed
"Your MEC Scheduling Committee recently concluded discussions with the Company to establish minimum connection times that will be used between flights on a pilot’s rotation."
"A pilot may be rerouted into a connection time that is shorter than is shown in the table above in order to avoid unnecessary delays for passengers on the affected flights. However, a pilot’s indicated duty period and/or FDP length on their then current rotation will always be based upon a connection time of at least the connection times shown in the table above."
Can anyone explain to me what we gained from this? At first glance it sounds like Tracking can do whatever they want with no financial recourse for the pilot.
Yes, we did lost some money for pilots when a min turn time was violated. The problem was those times were somehow secret and you only knew if you were dealing with a violation via an ACE report. The key thing to me is that your FDP must be calculated based on the agreed upon times. You cannot be rerouted into a schedule that requires an FDP extension, and this agreement makes it clearer to determine your legalities. So if you're legal for a RR with a 12 minute turn, but a 30 minute turn puts you into extension territory, they cannot schedule that since it's illegal.