Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Respectfully, I don’t think you are grasping the issue. It’s also been explained several times that using NC allows you to be exempt from the first 2 hours of SC, AND that simply checking your schedule via iCrew puts you back in a normal contactable status where they must call you, and leaving you plenty of time to drive to work.
literally the only downside for a local is that you have to bother to 1. Call CS at original SC assignment notification time, and 2. check your schedule in iCrew 1 minute into your SC. Bottom sentence of the SRH page 80, and top sentence of page 81.
why would you not do this every SC as a local? What do you think the disadvantage is?
This is the point CX500T and I are trying to get across with this issue: PWA 23.9.b.2.b
In short, if using the 2 hour provision, CS can still award a rotation as early as 2 hours from the start of the SC period. I can't be sitting at home waiting to call CS to switch my contactable status or check my schedule on iCrew for the first at SC +2:01.
Yes, I totally understand that under the provision, a pilot cannot be assigned a trip in the first two hours. There is more to it than that though.