Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
I know what happened. I talked to him on the phone. He also posted it in the scheduling section of the ALPA web boards. He could have made it home had they not rescheduled him. He is going to call ALPA tomorrow. Today wasn't even that bad, and the system started to fall apart. My post is a prediction. We'll see if it comes true this summer. I feel it will. I am convinced though that Delta scheduling will bend and violate the contract like regional schedulers do when they need trips covered and have no pilots available.
I looked at his situation:
If they CNXed his freedom leg which was out of LGA and rerouted him due to IROPS to another city where he overnightd to DH home today, I beleive that this is legal under the contract. I beleive 12 N states this. Is it go no, but he was in NYC, they needed a pilot and he got a short end of the stick. Hopefully he will get premium pay for today, but I do not see that in the PWA either. They will give him his off day back and explain that it was totally out of their hands.
I think that the issues in the NE were some of the worst the company has had to deal with in many years. They literally did not know what hotels people were staying in.