Originally Posted by
threeighteen
At another place if two legs of your trip cancel, you either get revised (extra money) or sent home with pay and still get trip guarantee. Here if two legs cancel or get equipment changed, or if your trip ending at 11:30 gets extended into your next trip at 14:20 you get put in sub and if you decline it to go home, you get nothing unless you go to your crashpad in MEM and sit it out. The savings of this benefits the company immensely. The company also saves a few million annually by not having to pay per diem during our long sits on the ground waiting for the sort. Everything about our system form is designed and optimized save them money. The lack of a min daily guarantee saves them millions as well.
Ok. I'll have to take your word that every other airline just pays pilots to go home when two legs cancel (why are you specifying two?).
But, please don't tell me you think you have to go to a crashpad and wait out SUB. Sure, if you want guaranteed pay you need to be available to take an assignment. But you can go home without declining anything and roll the bones that they don't need you. If they call, then you just decline then. If they don't, you get paid. No need to stay in town if you'd rather go home and risk losing the pay in exchange for the option of being home.