Originally Posted by
CA1900
It's not that we don't have the ability -- there is indeed a CBA paragraph specifically allowing it. It's that it just doesn't normally happen, aside from exceptionally rare situations like the offline divert you mention. Unfortunately all it says is that segments over 5 hours will be booked in first class, but only if they'll be followed by a flying segment that day. That's it.
Ok. So you can go offline. So any middle dh language you get will apply to both. Just come up with a swa specific carveout.
Here’s some fairly standard middle seat dh language.
When a pilot, through no fault of their own, is required to dh in a middle seat the pilot shall be compensated at 150% of the credit value of the leg(s) in which the middle seat was occupied.
This payment shall be in addition to the value of the sequence and above the pilot’s monthly pay guarantee.
The fact that you can go offline will give you the ability to tighten up reassignment language a bit and why I also mentioned that as well. I want to go offline and get back asap. You have to buy an offline ticket if there’s a flight available (you could make this voluntary) and get me back.