Originally Posted by
20Fathoms
I guess it depends on what you consider “many pilots” but the part you bolded is absolutely true for some pilots. Personally I had 2 assignments in 2024 that got removed due to improper notification and ended up just staying at home with my family rather than spending 10 hours in Syracuse.
At least one of those two went out as a last minute GS so that pilot benefited as well.
Since this is a reserve thread let’s really examine what happened. In a perfect world that example you gave happened. Schedulings new goal now with all of those SC’s is alleviating this ten fold. More often than not it’s getting covered by the plethora of people sitting SC which under the old contract rarely happened. That whole law of unintended consequences… your example very well coulda caused the crappy four days I got hammered with last month where I got a SC conversion and then subsequent two day and then was put on SC following that trip and had to go fly a crappy turn which likely came from some other broken up trip. I signed up for this job and I’m not complaining that I have to work my entire point in all of this is that there could be many ways to work around this that makes life easier for all but I get it as humans we tend to look out for numero uno and only see life through our own lens. People PCS all the time and have no issues with whatever those calls are called VRU or whatever but in the handful of other times it’s a non starter which I get cause hey it’s in the contract but talk about wanting their cake and eating it too.