Originally Posted by
golfandfly
onetime,
I agree with you to some extent. At the present, the current process only tends to make us angry at each other. I can't understand the lowlifes that fly them, these are the same scum that will cross a picket line. They don't understand that if we work together, we have ALL of the negotiation capital. If we don't fly the trips, they assign them to reserves. The company is carrying few reserves and can't fill all of the trips. The company resorts to draft, or worse, packages don't move. And, that is when the problem gets fixed. Right now they know they can serve us any $hit sandwich and we'll choke down everyone of them....
The sad thing is that history has shown that even when left to rot in open time and assigned to reserves for 3 months, the VP of Flight Ops can still rule the pairing valid and it becomes not-disputed...do everything right and still lose...
I am for publishing a list of DP flyers in the AOC and on ALPA emails. They can hide their schedules, but they can't hide from this acknowledgement.
Calendar blockers are delusional if they think hiding their calendar does any good whatsoever. Any pilot on the property can quite easily see another pilots schedule...it just takes a little longer. Actually, we should be glad that folks that have something to "hide" do hide their calendar...it highlights them as problem children and draws focus to the very thing they are trying to conceal.
On a different front, the company decided this month to chop up the reserve lines into small blocks. I guess they don't like to pay 1 in 7. This also makes if very difficult for commuters. They have had several longer trips come up into open time late at night that they have needed to split up to get a reserve to fly it. This adds deadheads to at least two pairings which cost money. Again, it seems like they are spending dollars to save nickels....
I don't think it's "how much" money so much as it is "who's" money...no one's in charge of the overall budget at FedEx...if you can make your buddy's department absorb some of your operating cost, you look good and he looks bad...who cares how much more it costs...