Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
Speak for yourself myself and many others in my base do everything we can to avoid ATL. I come to work with an expectation to fly the trip as it was built that's why I bid it. I understand that things change and as a result so may the trip but I can speak of only one time that a current contract reroute was worth it and that was because it turned a 5 day into a 3 day. This attitude that everything is about making extra money is pervavsive in the industry but way worse at Delta. If you cant make it on the current rates one is doing it wrong but that's on them. This weekend was another reminder of just how awful it could be dealing with irops and reroutes but to each their own I suppose I should be overjoyed about the extra pay :/
Yeah but that was true under the old reroute rules too. Back then if you got your chain yanked you almost never got extra pay for it. The same chain yanking exists today but at least you are guaranteed to always make at least something extra, and on occasion a whole lot extra. I'd argue that the company is now less trigger happy on reroutes than they were in the past. I remember times of getting rerouted because some computer said it would save a few minutes but you're swapping planes with the crew being rerouted to cover your legs then both legs go out late. I don't hear of that happening any more. When I do get rerouted many of my reroutes have resulted in the same or less flying, but again for more pay. Reroutes are one of the pay items that we have the least control over. Yeah you can bid some sits or whatever but that's no guarantee and if some senior guys take crappier trips fishing for RR pay then that lets better trips go to more junior pilots.