Originally Posted by TALPAtalker

I don’t get why things are set up this way. Some new guy on SC called scheduling in response to an IA that he could have worked as a SC assignment, but which CS had overlooked in the coverage process. He beat me to reaching CS by a few seconds. CS gave the trip to him as a SC assignment. In the Crew Assist case, they told me the SC pilot called them, and they covered it with him instead of giving it to me as an IA. ALPA said the most senior pilot would be paid, and that I wasn’t eligible for anything. However, if the contract were followed, I would have gotten the trip, plus the 3 PBs associated with it. So why do we pay the most senior guy for the trip?