Originally Posted by crewdawg

I was here when that was a thing, I just never understood it. The bad part of the protection for current month is that all the credit is at the end of the trip, so the protection isn't all that great.





I guess it's not that obvious to me, but I've never asked how they're handled at other airlines and I can't remember what they did at AAL. Seems to me that the trip should just be flown as built, or DH home if they can't finish within the footprint of the trip. If the trip is shortened, you should be protected for the entire trip (get what you negotiate here I suppose). Extending it has never made sense. They way they view days off is very odd. I'm glad we have the protections we do now, but just working someone into an off day because of a schedule change makes zero sense. Along those lines, the golden day concept has never made sense. My time off is my time off and the only time I should ever work into a day off is if it's phyiscally impossible to get me home. Anyway, carry out has never really been an issue for me because I just avoid those trips, just found it an weird part of the contract.