Originally Posted by
withthatsaid182
Last year I remember sitting reserve and not flying at all because CS was deadheading in DFW and ORD crews to do our flying and this way the numbers in NY looked better i.e. adequate staffing. I would see a 3 day open up and then watch a DFW crew come in and CS's logic was that they needed for AM standby the next day blah blah blah. For awhile some guys in ORD would drop their entire month and pick up OT around the system. Again taking flying away from guys in their base. I don't care what the system allows you to do or what your seniority allows you to do it was garbage. Eventually they blocked OT and stopped approving guys who requested to drop an entire month.
What the heck happened to your contract? They never used to be able to do this. They had to use in base reserves before bringing in guys from other bases. Matter of fact, when you went back through the base if they then had in-base reserves, they had to replace you and send you back to your base....When did you guys lose this and what did you get for it?
and when did they start blocking open time? is that what it sounds like, a line holder, or RSV, can't pick up a trip that is open? What did you guys get for that one? That's HUGE... it lets them fly their reserves and avoid paying overtime premium, unless they think they'll need to. Wow, things have gotten bad.
Can you guys still turn down certain reassignments under the JIC? or did that get lost too?
Next you'll see Eagle copying mainline and trying to open codomiciles....