Originally Posted by
Scoop
Deviating DH is a choice.
As a commuter I bid as many DH trips that I can work into my schedule, mostly 5 day trips with a DH day on front and in back. In September my schedule was 9 days worked for 14 days of pay with PS to and from work on all except 1 leg. I may be naive, but to me this is a great deal and one of the reasons I downbid from NB A to WB B. I don't see how anyone who deviates for their convenience should get anything based on what happens to the originally scheduled DH. We have a lot of stuff that can be improved in our PWA - IMHO this ain't one of them.
Scoop
The company shouldn’t save money because we choose to deviate either. They already save a PS seat when pilots choose to fly OAL metal, drive, etc. When we do fly the deviation on DL metal, they are able to book us in a lower seating class in most instances. They also save on reroute, carve, additional ADG credit, etc. if something happens to the scheduled DH after the pilot deviates. None of that is in dispute though.
At issue here is that the company is attempting to retract pay if a scheduled DH falls apart BEFORE a pilot actually calls to deviate. If, on the last day of your trip, your scheduled DH is already delayed with an arrival time past midnight, your rotation will show an additional 2 hours of carve pay before you deviate. As soon as you call to deviate, that pay will disappear from your rotation. That’s a violation of the agreed-upon interpretation on SRH page 231.