Originally Posted by
Mason32
Then you and the rest of your pilots need to call fatigued everytime they schedue somethign like this. If each and every month the flight are delayed and cancelled because crew planning builds a schedule that results in too many fatigue calls.... guess what... the schedule gets changed.
And the fact that you either take that out of your sick time or don't get paid for that time? Regional FOs don't have a whole lot of choices. At a lot of places you will get at least one or two overnights like that a month, and if you only earn 2-4 sick hours per month, then you're spending all of your sick time (or much much more) on fatigue calls. What happens if you're really sick? The real issue is that when making the decision between calling in fatigued or when deciding to go to work for the day, the FO has to decide if the lost pay or lost sick time is worth what will
probably result in a relatively safe and violation free day.