Originally Posted by
OscartheGrouch
20 years ago when I was on the 727 as a FE at Pan Am I was asked by the Captain to add 10 minutes (15 > 2 hours) to every flight. Since I was on probation I initially said okay. Then I thought about it and since the log book was used for pay records for all crewmembers (Flight attendants included). I handed the logbook to him and said "your fill it out, I am not going to falsefy our flight times."
Good for you. I was on the MEC of an airline where a guy was fired for falsifying his block times. It was hopeless in arbitration. The company had pages of documented times to compare with his times. The easily showed a habitual trend of lying on his block times. There was nothing we could do. He hit the streets.
When I was a new hire we did not have ACARS and called in out own times. Most captains called it "on time" even if we pushed 5 late but one guy used to ask me to add 5 to our arival times. Ops would call us for our IN time and I would have to add 3 minutes to the current time! I am ashamed to say I did not fight him on this initially but later got the gonads to tell him NO. Interestingly he is one of the two scabs we have at Alaska.
As far as SW, Yeah, they get preferential treatment. I've seen it but it never bothered me. I get paid by the minute.