Originally Posted by
FDXAV8R
The company will no longer rebuild the entire pairing for all crewmembers if something happens to the backend deadhead. They now just split the pairing up and put everyone on their own seperate pairing and will not pay anyone who deviates the additional money. I know they used to pay everyone, but I have just had this happen and I am talking to the union about it.
Just had this happen a couple of weeks ago. I trip traded into a back end dead head trip. Less than 12 hours after I got the trip, they changed the dead head because the scheduled one was not operating. The new dead head left later, thus making the trip pay more (trip rig). However, since the F/O already deviated, his trip remained the same and they revised mine to a new pairing number. I then went 8-24 on the trip prior to this one and didn't have to fly it. However, I noticed my SUB guarantee was only 8:06 CH rather than the revised 9:21 CH. Had to send an email to crew pay to get that fixed, which they did.
For once things worked out to my favor. Got paid more for a trip I didn't have to fly and got home sooner!