Originally Posted by
tennisguru
Not expanding the use of CNO is a huge issue for me in the next contract. It is a huge driver of my QOL when they mess up rotation and/or rest notifications and I get to stay home several extra days per month. The solution isn't to give PWA relief to the company - it's for the company to come into compliance with the current PWA langauge. If you don't like that pilots like myself know the ins and outs of the PWA and exercise every detail to our advantage, then take your complaints to the CPO and tell them to train crew schedulers better. Caving to the company's inability to do basic functions like notify pilots of assignments is something we should not be considering. Many other pilots other than reserve pilots benefit from scheduling's improper notifications when they get a GS or RR that pays a them a ton extra while the reserve pilot gets more days at home. And again, if that whole idea just grinds your gears, take it up with the company, not ALPA.
This right here. I cannot tell you how many times over the years I have gotten not just an extra day off, but multiple days off because of their
incompetence. Why should be bail them out of that???? One example of improper notification was for rest. I once had CQ (non-contactable status) which required a 30-hour rest to be legal to do anything after. They didn't call me before I started a training day, and tried to call me during CQ to put me on rest. Not only that, it was an illegal rest starting on a training day. FAR 117
illegal. So I waited until I was back in contactable status, called them, and told them I needed a 30 hour rest. Long story short, after some whining an moaning from CS, they put me in a 30 hour rest. That combo made me unusable for an entire 3-day LC stretch. NOT. MY. PROBLEM. if the company can't figure out the simple stuff. This would be a
massive give to the company - aka concession.
I'm a hard NO on giving relief on CNO or auto-acknowledging assignments. The quid required for me to say ok to that is 100% of ALL our asks, including a 20+% pay raise DOS. Take it or leave it.