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Originally Posted by
jagplt
one other thing...
am I slow on the up take or have they tweaked the optimizer again for the mem to west coast pairings. From what it looks like to me they schedule you for over 8/24, which trips the extended crew rest trigger... but from what I see they put them on the end of a block or where the extended crew rest period is on your time off. Now they don't have to give you 24 hours on the west coast, they schedule a short turn on the west coast, let you exceed 8/24 and then let you cover the rest requirement's on your time... more on us, less on them.... again.
Wonder if thats a result of locking out the extended SIG group. 2 SIG guys trying to cover what 16 SIG guys use to do... but 2 SIG guys meets the contract requirement to have input from the SIG, so it's ok... right?
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Where have you been? You can't fly through space on fractions, man!
huh?
Well I watched a few of these unturnable pairings out of MEM in Jun, then a few more in Jul... no telling how many in Aug.. company loves them, you absorb the cost of the longer required crew rest, and with lower BLGs no chance of exceeding min day's off like before.
For those of you thinking I'm slamming the SIG, think again.. big SIG supporter here... what I'd like to see is the entire SIG working on the pairings, not just the 2 guys the company uses to keep the pairings from being in violation of the FAR's. That's about all 2 guys can physically do for all the tracts with all the pairings in each one. A question some may ask is why are we helping screen the pairings for FAR violations for the company? They have locked out the SIG as we knew it, the ones that worked the lines for us... so why bail them out on the violations?
Just asking the questions...
and my e mail address is very current with ALPA.