Originally Posted by
Jaww
Go a reroute. The change (24 hours away) was a 17 min turn to a DH. FO was actually scheduled for DH two hours later. We had same schedule except for this DH.
I got in for a 10 hour layover late the day they put the reroute on us and didn’t have time to call to fix the short reroute turn. Showed to the jet the next day and still not fixed. Didn’t have time to call (or didn’t feel like dealing with it, thought the system would catch up especially since FO was on a reasonable DH). Nope, landed and still there so I hustled to make it. I didn’t. They never noticed I was missing until I called hours later asking what they wanted me to do. Mind you, there were still 3 DHs I could make to be legal that day. Instead they laid me over and sent me on a DH the next morning with a 35 min turn. That flight was late too.
So I called, and the supervisor put 4F1R and 16 hours on my timecard. I assume it was because it was illegal after that point.
So when they give you this 16 hour payout, is there a way for you to know and calculate that 16 is what you were owed from the beginning or is it as arbitrary as Dumbledore awarding points at Hogwarts?
Did they basically go "Ok, whoops. Here's 16 hours for your troubles and I pulled that number out of my a$$"