Originally Posted by
TALPAtalker
I’m in agreement with you on all points except that TED74’s point was that he would not be required to fly the trip. If so assigned, since it is fly now grieve later, you’re flying.
CS
should remove any illegal assignment. However, inside of 2 hours to report, they are
likely to invoke “fly now, grieve later”.
Originally Posted by
Thruster
Now I'm confused. You said you cannot be disciplined for 'late' and then you said you must be there "as early as 2 hours from start of SC" if you make yourself "promptly available" at minute 1 of SC.
Scenario: You call in NC for SC starting at 1800.
CS puts trip on line to show 1930. (illegal).
I call them at 1801 and say I'm promptly available.
CS: Cool, you're trip is at 1930.
Me: On my way and I'll take assignment pay please.
If you are local and avail yourself of NC status, one of 2 things will be true when you check your iCrew schedule/call them, in this case at 1801.
1. There is no trip present, in which case you are back to “promptly available” and all its protections, to include that CS must call you with an assignment.
2. There is an illegal report present for 1930, in which case you call to tell them it’s illegal, probably be told “fly now, grieve later”, and collect the dough. But in this case, you’d better be able to report “as early as 2 hours from start of SC” (plus maybe an extra 10-15ish minutes to get to the gate). In this example, 2000
because you invoked NC. If you can still get there by 2000, you cannot be disciplined for being after 1930 (or even after 1801 if that was the illegal report time), because CS violated the contract.
Note: this non-contactable 2 hours is specifically defined in the contract for this situation only, and is
completely separate and independent of “promptly available” on SC, which is intentionally
undefined. This can be as much as 3 hours in some situations, but is generally understood to be
about 2-ish hours under normal driving conditions.