Originally Posted by
FangsF15
FFS, inventing new interpretations never ceases. They simply must have someone intentionally scanning the PWA for any language that’s not ironclad.
Please send a Dart to ALPA. They need to know about this.
Originally Posted by
Narconomus
I had CS tell me today that they are only required to observe short call preferences when they are scheduling manually. I was told that since they are mostly using the automation to assign the next day short call assignments that pilots preferences are not considered. For the past few months my preferences seem to have been observed but not today and that is what I was told. I checked the PWA 23 S.1.f and SRH pg 85. It seems to say they can ignore the preferences when assigning short call non- manually (whatever that would mean, PCS?).
Could someone help me understand this? Thanks
Bloody heck I bet this happened to me too. Got a 4 am SC last week while other people junior to me got better slots. Called scheduling and after 16 minutes of them checking it out, they said the other pilots were all coming off x days so couldn’t get the 4 am slot. I realized after I hung up that many of them had 8 or 9 am slots which wouldn’t have been legal anyway coming off x days unless they yellow slipped but was too lazy to call again as I figured I wouldn’t get used (and didn’t since the whole dang base is on SC).
Absolute BS if that’s their current take.